From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18692 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Oct 2003 19:47:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7179 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2003 19:47:32 -0000 From: "C. Brewer" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:47:35 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <4866.146.176.63.67.1066740482.squirrel@mail.codewordt.co.uk> <200310221127.08345.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <200310222124.01388.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310222124.01388.pauldv@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_Y7tl/LrlFNikxlz"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310221247.36048.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE Linux 2.6.x X-Archives-Salt: 312abeb9-eb74-4da4-b8fc-19ada481cad8 X-Archives-Hash: 227f644b9134615943d7efc95f85543c --Boundary-02=_Y7tl/LrlFNikxlz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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 fin= al > is finished (the install man). Normally one also wants to install the > modules for this kernel. Once people have at least one running kernel, th= ey > can at least fallback to it. Truly, it's too bad that external kernel modules couldn't be less dependent= on=20 the version of the kernel they need to run on, and put them in a separate=20 place entirely, to be called by any kernel:( =2D-=20 Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. --Boundary-02=_Y7tl/LrlFNikxlz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/lt7XGmszwkJY878RAoYeAKCaaQBU4nGbGBksu9FjliVQDpKEigCg3qgH M5bgFjq9AJe1QyH4LaqaBtM= =BTUG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Y7tl/LrlFNikxlz--