On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:44, C. Brewer wrote:

> The only modules discussion so far, other than what you recently brought up, 
> was Mike's example of how the nvidia-modules package determined the running 
> kernel. The original question was how does a package(generic) determine the 
> running kernel. While I agree that there are some issues with the modules 
> packages that should be handled differently, no package that doesn't provide 
> modules should care what kernel you're running.

IMHO, the original question was 'asked incorreclty'.  Or then out of a
Gentoo point of view.

We generally do not care what kernel is running - sure, we do wonder
what ARCH we running on, but then that we usually set in make.conf :/

For our purpose, we care about the target kernel - ie, what kernel
should we compile this module for, or (and this might be related to
some other comments from you) what kernel should we use for this
broken user-space program that need kernel headers, and not the
generics in /usr/include.

Sure, Linus might not agree with /usr/src/linux, but then it is
known, and as far as I know there is no problems (except your
usual problems which is package specific and would be broken
anyhow if not current headers was there).

Hope I was not too confusing :)


Thanks,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa