API/ABI stability
Posted Sep 2, 2004 16:38 UTC (Thu) by
piman (subscriber, #8957)
In reply to:
API/ABI stability by elanthis
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Pointless ideology?
> *IF* there was a standard kernel source installation mechanism that found out-of-tree drivers and rebuilt them and regenerated the initrd, such that any kernel driver would be handled by any distro kernel packages or kernel rebuilds, this wouldn't be a problem.
I don't know about "standard", but Debian has such a program. It builds .debs for any kernel source tree and additionally .debs for any module source packages.
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