From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Jansen Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:24:38 +0000 Subject: Re: Automatic download and installation of drivers. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 30 October 2001 18:21, Greg KH wrote: > Where do you define this version of gcc? > Many versions of gcc can successfully compile a kernel. The easiest way would be to include a file in the kernel that contains the version number of one compiler that is able to compile the kernel. This compiler is then used to compile the kernel. > > IMHO it is neccessary that stable kernels keep source compatibility. > That is not way Linux kernel development is done, sorry. If the driver does not compile and the package containing the driver states that the driver has not been tested with the kernel version it can just abort and tell the user that the driver has not been ported the newer version yet. This is not worse than the current situation for both user and developer. I wonder for how long it is possible to keep all existing drivers in the kernel source though. bye... _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel