On Sep 30, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Eli Criffield wrote:
Its not a bad idea to have a byte-compiled c code an rpm to distribute it, and some magical way to compile it on rpm -i. I could see that coming in really handy for closed source kernel modules that can't distribute there code due to some NDA somewhere but can't possibly maintain a version for every kernel out there.
Well, even this is overkill. A more portable way to do this (for the 3590 drivers, for example) would be for IBM to distribute not an entire kernel module, but a binary object with well-defined interfaces that you could link against locally-built sources to create a kernel module that would run at any kernel level (sort of like the way all those wireless drivers which wrap a Windows driver DLL work), and a Makefile to let you do that. However, this would require them spending more money to engineer that solution, which they deem not to be a wise investment. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
