From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RZQIb-0000Hy-EH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:01:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2211821C184; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4C421C0A7 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:00:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFAF11B400C for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:00:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.431 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.431 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.394, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.164, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.201, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OUve_FQ-tQYd for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:00:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662A01B4013 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RZQHS-000786-DD for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:00:10 +0100 Received: from 68.168.167.182 ([68.168.167.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:00:10 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 68.168.167.182 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:00:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201112082009.36698.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111208221108.GF13528@eisen.lan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.168.167.182 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 7a484eaf-a10d-43a5-bb38-7fca53b7d52a X-Archives-Hash: 5bf126b43bd9d7c0c01e3c7aafc23871 On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan wrote: > And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros > introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel. RedHat is particularly bad about this. I maintain a couple Linux drivers that have to work with a wide range of kernel versions. There are lot's of #ifdef's that depend on not only the kernel and some of them also have to check whether it's a _RedHat_ kernel or not, since RedHat is fond of shipping a kernel with version X.Y.Z that isn't even close to compatible with the driver API for vanilla kernel X.Y.Z. > With Gentoo, it's even more complicated, as most experienced > Gentooroids will configure and compile their own kernels. I've never had to add special code to a driver to handle the Gentoo version of a kernel. -- Grant