Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:25:06 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG for -mregparm=3 |
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:35:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: >... > I think the popular modules like nvidia or ATI could be fixed > relatively easily. They usually consist of a glue layer with source and a > binary blob that is only called from the glue layer. Basically all you > have to do is the mark the prototypes for the binary blob in the glue layer > as "asmlinkage". In addition this can be done without any ifdefs > because asmlinkage does the right thing on a non regparm kernel. > > Of course true binary only modules without glue layer would be more > difficult, but for those the vendors just have to recompile. Conceivable > it would be possible to write a glue layer even for them. >...
Did I miss Linus announcing a stable ABI between kernel versions?
If some binary module vendor tries to support more than one kernel version it's his problem - this is nothing that is officially supported by the Linux kernel.
> -Andi
cu Adrian
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