Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: no version magic, tainting kernel. | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:02:11 +0000 |
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vandrove@vc.cvut.cz said: > From my exprience at VMware newsgroups distros have bad troubles even > with delivery of basic configured kernel headers matching to kernel > binaries they provide (it is not unusual that for example they go from > 1GB to 4GB kernel without make mrproper so kmap/kunmap do not have > proper versions attached :-( or they even sell headers and binaries > with different configs).
But you _need_ the config. Even with your own makefiles, how are you going to get it right for all new kernels that $CRAPDISTRO ships in a broken form, if you don't have the configs?
If distros ship broken crap which doesn't let you build modules, there's really not a lot you can do except note their quality control for the record and report it in their bug tracking system.
You are _always_ going to have problems with people shipping shite, or possibly even actively going our of their way to prevent out-of-tree modules building. It's fairly much an orthogonal problem though, isn't it?
-- dwmw2
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