How could that not be a wise investment when they are spending man hours to make sure the OCO modules themselves worth with flavor x version z?
Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 09/30/2005 10:47:10 AM: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
