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:(

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