On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 01:50:41PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > > > We have plenty of customers with 10 year old drivers, where the expertise > > has long left the company. The engineers still around, recompile and make > > tweaks to get things working on the latest RHEL. Verify it passes testing > > and release it. Then they hope to not touch it again for a few years until > > the next RHEL comes along. > > > > Scary, huh? :-) > > Oh yeah my aim here is not to make distro or out of tree module vendors > life harder, actually the opposite. If it turns out modversions really is > the best approach, I'm not in a position to complain about its complexity > because we have Suse and Redhat people maintaining the build and module > systems :) I just want to see if we can do things better. Hi Nick, I think we are in pretty good agreement here. We can do better than modversions. On the flip side, I would hate to see modversions ripped out until we have an alternate path forward as it does get us by for now. :-) Cheers, Don -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
