Messages in this thread |  | | From | arjan@fenrus ... | Subject | Re: kbuild 2.5 preventing mixture of compilers | Date | Thu, 01 Nov 2001 08:37:35 +0000 |
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In article <2644.192.168.2.1.1004602385.squirrel@mail.mswinxp.net> you wrote: > IMHO, that is a good idea... almost.
> What about companies that maintain closed source driver modules for their > hardware?
> I know a lot of people here will say, 'well they should open source them > then'. However, some companies don't want to for their own reasons and > this 'could' blow them out the water a bit and affect end users.
If a different compiler version is known to break (and Keith says he has seen that in practice, and I can see it happen as well given that a few kernel headers depend on compiler version), the vendor in question is better off being informed about the incompatibility. He _already_ has to have an exact match on the kernel version and the other symbols, so adding the compiler to that is not an extra burden, just a "oh we goofed" prevention.. - 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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