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On Sun, 04 Dec 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 13:12 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Dec 2005, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > These folks have nothing new to innovate here. The memory manager and VM > > > gets revamped every other release. Exports get broken, binary only > > > module compatibility busted every rev of the kernel. I spend weeks on > > > > Who cares for binary modules? > > > > It hurts however if external OSS modules are broken. > > then those modules should be submitted realistically. That's just best > for everyone involved. Which modules in particular do you mean btw? I meant the ipmi, smbus and copa modules by Fujitsu-Siemens. They are provided in source form, but I just found out (reading the headers and not just the lines that broke the compile) they are not open source. Perhaps one should prod them to slap a modified-BSD or perhaps GPL label onto their modules. It seems you'd then maintain them after their submission? :-) > It's rare even in the 2.6 tree to mass-break well written drivers. Just > because it's a lot of work to fix all in kernel drivers up. But a fully > stable API is also not good. My guess is that the drivers that break > most are the ones using the not-right APIs (eg internals and such). These use inter_module_get() (ok, inter_module_get_request isn't difficult) and some #include headers that have moved around between linux and asm directories. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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