Re: [parisc-linux] adding a second nic to B1000

[Joel Soete <joel.soete@tiscali.be>]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-08-08 07:46:24 +0000, Joel Soete <joel.soete@tiscali.be>
>wrote in message <3F335550.3030804@tiscali.be>:
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>>geos@canada.com wrote:
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>>But to load modules, they have to be build for the kernel you are 
>>running (I think that will change in 2.6). So the only  think to do now 
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>I'm quite sure that won't change, ever. Linux, if it's compatible to
>itself at all, has got "only" a source compatible API. You're somewhat
>on a more save side if you're using symbol versioning, but if you force
>a module to load (into a kernel of different version or even of
>different configuration), you may loose. Right now or sometime later:)
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>That's what "tainting" was ment for:)
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>MfG, JBG
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Sorry for this confuion I do have missunderstood some discussion on the 
subject, my bad :(

Thanks for those clarification,
    Joel