Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:04 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2010-01-07 11:01, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > Yes, you just build a KMP...
> > >
> > > ... KMPs can be used for multiple kernels (the built against one
> > > and laters), if the kabi for those stays stable. 
> > > While we do not guarantee that for openSUSE, we try to keep it that way.
> > >
> > > A KMP built against the 11.2 GA kernel will for instance still work with
> > > the current update kernel.
> >
> > If I make a kernel driver package, can I trigger it getting rebuilt
> > automatically when a kernel update is released? Without me having to
> > trigger anything by hand?
>
> Often, KMPs still work across a minor kernel update, by means
> of the weak-modules mechanism.

I thought the openSUSE kernel was compiled to require precise version
matching when loading modules. Is this not the case?

> > Section 4.6 in the link I referenced implies that
> > this is possible. Would it happen automatically if I build against
> > openSUSE:11.2:Update and a kernel update is released?
>
> It should.

Sounds too good to be true.


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