Re: new kbuild

Hi!

I think Frank is right. We should leave 2.6.5 and below unsupported. 
There are quite a number of bugs in there. In particular the USB 
subsystem is only fully operational from 2.6.5. Therefore I have 
absolutely no problems of starting support from 2.6.6 only.

/Bernd


David Schleef wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:09:33PM -0400, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> 
>>It looks like modtool's support for 2.6 has been improved a lot.  It's 
>>failing for me against a 2.6.5 kernel though, due to a lack of a 
>>Module.symvers file (which seems like it was added in the 2.6.6 kernel 
>>along with a more external-module friendly kbuild?):
> 
> 
>>Is this easy to work around?  If not, I have no problem with us officially 
>>declaring 2.6.0-2.6.5 kernels unsupported, as their support for externally 
>>built modules is not so great.
> 
> 
> I should have added another style for <=2.6.5, but was in a hurry.
> It would be very similar to what used to be there.
> 
> 
> 
> dave...
> 
> 
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Received on 2004-06-03Z08:28:19