Re: Special place for tird-party modules.

[Goran Cengic]

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 18.35, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hey, we already have a special place for binary only modules.
>
> It is called /dev/null. 8)

:)

>
> > against this approach? Why does the nvidia driver have to be compiled for
> > different kernel versions? Can't they make one module that fits all
> > kernels?
>
> No, it was discussed zillion times already.

Where can I find the discussion? Was it on this list?

>
> > If I'm missing something cruical please point it out to me.
>
> You are missing fact that module compiled for specific kernel version
> may not work with another kernel version. ;-)

Ok, but why is there possibility to ignore version number of the modules if it 
makes no sense?

>
> Cheers,
> Bartlomiej

/Goran

Goran Cengic
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