On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:54 +0200, jdd wrote:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
If a kernel module is not recompiled in time for a kABI changing update, the previous version is tried.
the basic problem is that when a new kernel is installed, the old module don't works anymore (vmware, for example)
If I understand well, in such a case the old module is tested to see if in runs ?
But it won't even install because the kernel version<> module version. Which was the point to my previous question about why a driver cannot be used with a newer kernel version. The 2.6 kernel is still the 2.6 kernel even if it has .3-5 or .3-55 at the end. If someone writes a driver for the 2.6 kernel it should work no matter what revision level the kernel goes to. But then I am not a programmer only a frustrated user. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998