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    SubjectRe: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?
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    On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 09:52 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote:
    > 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.

    yup there are. sad but true ;(

    > 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.

    well if a binary blob is involved you've lost already in many ways.


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