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Re: [suse-security] SuSE Security Announcement: kernel (SuSE-SA:2003:021)
- From: Robert Davies <rob_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:47:50 +0000
- Message-id: <20030327085441.HKXR310.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@there>
On Thursday 27 March 2003 08:07, Radu Voicu wrote:
> No offence, but I think you'll have to pay more attention when you compile
> the kernel upgrade... for instance, in the upgrade 2.4.18 for SuSE 8.1, you
> use modules from 2.4.19... and no machine will start... NEVER EVER... I
But module versioning allows loading of compiled modules into different
kernel releases, so long as the compile options are compatible (memory model,
SMP, CPU etc).
Rob
> No offence, but I think you'll have to pay more attention when you compile
> the kernel upgrade... for instance, in the upgrade 2.4.18 for SuSE 8.1, you
> use modules from 2.4.19... and no machine will start... NEVER EVER... I
But module versioning allows loading of compiled modules into different
kernel releases, so long as the compile options are compatible (memory model,
SMP, CPU etc).
Rob
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