Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 May 2006 09:52:59 -0600 | From | "Christopher Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:35 -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote: > >>BTW, why is Mandriva the only distro to turn OFF REGPARM?. Again, I think >>distros shouldn't be given an option to turn it off if its a good thing to have.
> why not? It's not like it's a dramatic change of API after all... (and > even if it were...) > > external modules shouldn't care, they really really should inherit the > cflags from the kernel's makefiles at which point.. the thing is moot.
Speaking from personal experience...there are a LOT of 3rd party drivers out there that do not build their modules properly. It gets especially interesting when they want to have a single package support 2.4 and 2.6, and also link the result against an included binary blob.
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