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From: "C. Brewer" <cbrewer@stealthaccess.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:47:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200310221247.36048.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310222124.01388.pauldv@gentoo.org>

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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:23, Paul de Vrieze wrote:

> You need to have the sources anyway to build a module. What is esp.
> problematic is first installs. One should install a kernel before the final
> is finished (the install man). Normally one also wants to install the
> modules for this kernel. Once people have at least one running kernel, they
> can at least fallback to it.

Truly, it's too bad that external kernel modules couldn't be less dependent on 
the version of the kernel they need to run on, and put them in a separate 
place entirely, to be called by any kernel:(

-- 
Chuck Brewer
Registered Linux User #284015
Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred.



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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-22 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21 12:48 [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-10-21 12:58 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-10-21 15:39   ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 16:25     ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2003-10-21 17:44       ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 20:15         ` Grant Goodyear
2003-10-22  3:11           ` C. Brewer
2003-10-21 20:53         ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-10-21 22:25         ` Spider
2003-10-22  3:44           ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22  8:15             ` Chris Smith
2003-10-22  8:17             ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-22 18:27               ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 18:46                 ` Brian Jackson
2003-10-22 19:23                 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-22 19:47                   ` C. Brewer [this message]
2003-10-22 20:06                     ` Spider
2003-10-22 10:40             ` Spider
2003-10-22 18:07               ` C. Brewer
2003-10-22 19:01                 ` Spider
2003-10-22 11:20           ` Patrick Lauer

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