On Wednesday 02 February 2005 02:36 am, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure what the difference between these 2 different headers. > > Well, one is for 2.4 kernel and the other is for 2.6, but I'm using > 2,6.10 kernel but I'm still using "linux-headers" instead of > linux26-headers. > > What's the difference and should I be concerned?
You may have problems installing header and kernel-version sensitive software if the linux headers don't match your kernel version, or they simply might not take advantage of the newer kernel. I actually ran 2.6 kernel on 2.4 headers for a few weeks, but then emerge sorld started acting up on me and I had to fix it. Since it's fairly trivial to fix, you should. At a root prompt: emerge -aC linux-headers emerge -a linux26-headers Of course, from what I understand, when 2.7 comes out (but, with the new kernel-development proceedures, who knows when that will be?), gentoo will be switching so that linux-headers (and vanilla-sources and gentoo-sources) are the 2.6 kernel. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- [email protected] mailing list
