Re: useful LKM?

Marcin Dalecki (dalecki@sub994.sub.uni-goettingen.de)
Thu, 2 Oct 1997 12:43:04 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Martin von Loewis wrote:

> > For linux kernel modules to be useful, you'd have to be able to build
> > modules in a fashion which is independent of the current kernel
> > configuration. Is anyone working on this?
>
> Module versioning is supposed to do exactly that. Why don't you use it?
No. Don't user symbol versioning. It doesn't do what it promises to be.
And more importantly it doesn't make the modules independant from the
kernel version. Modules just can't be independant from the kernel. That
just like live is.

But modules are usefull despite of this anyway of course.

Marcin
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