best way to determine devices with drivers
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Thu Jun 24 06:14:58 PDT 2004
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:02:42PM +0100, Jono Bacon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >One area where this does get complicated is that the various
> >enterprise distros sometimes ship multiple versions of the same
> >module, with slightly different names. Such deviations could
> >(and should) be maintained in the HAL packages for those distros IMO.
> >
> >Just making things work with a mainline kernel should cover 99%
> >of cases. The other 1% can probably figure it out themselves.
>
> I think this is the key - most kernels should be good. When Project
> Utopia is working with a vanilla kernel, maybe it will encourage
> distributors to get involved so they can adopt the technology.
>
> Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the LSB have to say about the
> use of binary modules? Do they dictate that it should be vanilla?
I doubt theres any mention of them there. In part due to the
fact that there have been ( and probably won't ever be ) any
ABI guarantees between kernel & modules.
Even some of the enterprise vendor kernels that claim to
provide ABI guarantees end up breaking it at times.
Sometimes it's just unavoidable.
Dave
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