Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
John,
Gee, just a kernel compiled with a different version of the gcc compiler than
driver modules causes a binary incompatibility. Also, distros always hack
their kernels. I don't know of one that uses a stock kernel (maybe Debian?).
LiS drivers need to be compiled for each kernel binary supported.
Distros don't seem to use either stock GCC releases or stock kernel
releases. That's not new either. But I think this is different. This
isn't a bug that causes a code incompatibility - it's an explicitly
different calling convention.
I don't see where SuSE has introduced anything much different here.
I'm not commenting on whether it's different or not. I don't think it's
a good idea. Certainly, it seems to me that Dave feels strongly that
it's not different, and that the entire Linux community is whacko for
making this kind of practice commonplace. He has a good point, even if
I disagree with him more generally. In this instance, I think he's
absolutely correct.
-John
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