From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: 4Front Technologies <dev@opensound.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bidulock@openss7.org,
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:52:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <447B18DB.3030805@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1148883077.3291.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:35 -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote:
>
>>BTW, why is Mandriva the only distro to turn OFF REGPARM?. Again, I think
>>distros shouldn't be given an option to turn it off if its a good thing to have.
> why not? It's not like it's a dramatic change of API after all... (and
> even if it were...)
>
> external modules shouldn't care, they really really should inherit the
> cflags from the kernel's makefiles at which point.. the thing is moot.
Speaking from personal experience...there are a LOT of 3rd party drivers
out there that do not build their modules properly. It gets especially
interesting when they want to have a single package support 2.4 and 2.6,
and also link the result against an included binary blob.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-29 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-25 21:19 How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? devmazumdar
2006-05-25 21:27 ` alan
2006-05-25 21:29 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-25 22:02 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-25 22:15 ` 4Front Technologies
2006-05-25 22:25 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-25 22:34 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-25 22:40 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-25 21:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-25 21:35 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-25 21:32 ` Michal Piotrowski
2006-05-25 21:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-25 21:39 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-25 21:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-26 14:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-25 21:44 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-25 22:52 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-05-26 4:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-26 14:37 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-26 15:01 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-27 10:47 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-25 21:41 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-25 22:29 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-25 22:39 ` 4Front Technologies
2006-05-25 23:06 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-25 23:16 ` 4Front Technologies
2006-05-26 0:12 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-25 23:00 ` Diego Calleja
2006-05-26 0:24 ` Måns Rullgård
2006-05-26 14:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-26 15:35 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-27 12:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-27 19:52 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-27 20:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-27 22:21 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-28 8:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-28 10:13 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-27 14:41 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-05-27 22:05 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-28 13:03 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-05-28 13:12 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-28 13:45 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-05-28 17:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-28 17:52 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-28 18:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-28 18:22 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-05-28 19:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-28 19:55 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-28 20:45 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-28 21:27 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-28 21:55 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-28 22:02 ` Lee Revell
2006-05-28 22:38 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-05-29 12:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-29 12:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-29 4:44 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-29 4:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-29 5:35 ` 4Front Technologies
2006-05-29 5:46 ` David Miller
2006-05-29 5:59 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-29 6:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-05-29 6:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-29 6:57 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-29 7:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-29 7:29 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-29 7:05 ` 4Front Technologies
2006-05-29 7:23 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-05-29 7:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-29 12:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-29 15:52 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2006-05-29 16:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-28 20:40 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-25 22:51 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-05-26 0:09 ` Thomas Backlund
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