Em 24-06-2011 19:39, Stefan Richter escreveu: > On Jun 24 Devin Heitmueller wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Stefan Richter >> <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Easier: >>> "I run Ubuntu 10.4". >>> "I run kernel 2.6.32." >>> One of these is usually already included in the first post or IRC message >>> from the user. >>> >>> Separate driver versions are only needed on platforms where drivers are >>> not distributed by the operating system distributor, or driver source code >>> is not released within kernel source code. >> >> Unfortunately, this doesn't work as all too often the user has "Ubuntu >> 10.1 but I installed the latest media_build tree a few months ago". >> Hence they are not necessarily on a particular binary release from a >> distro but rather have a mix of a distro's binary release and a >> v4l-dvb tree compiled from source. > > If you release out-of-kernel-source driver sources for compilation against > binary kernels, and you have got users who go through this procedure, then > the user can for sure tell you the SCM version of the driver. Yes, and this is currently provided. The dmesg will show the last 3 git commits. A developer can just use git diff or git log to discover what changed since those commits. > Besides, isn't this outdated practice in times where Joe Enduser can get > the very latest -rc kernel prepackaged on many distributions, including > ones like Ubuntu? Perhaps, but the cost to maintain the out-of-tree driver git tree is cheap. We provide just a small building system, with a script that downloads a daily tarball with just drivers/media and the corresponding includes (and a few drivers/staging). The building system has a couple patches to allow backport compilation since 2.6.32. Mauro. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
