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SubjectRe: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:35 -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote:
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>>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.

Chris
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