| |||||||||||||
Quote of the weekQuote of the weekPosted Oct 13, 2006 16:54 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670)In reply to: Quote of the week by mrshiny Parent article: Quote of the week
I'm not sure if running just one driver from a completely different kernel together with all your existing drivers from another kernel would be preferable. It's absolutely guaranteed to be an untested combination, and the odds that it'll work without problems is probably lower. I know I would prefer to just install the latest kernel and be done with it.
(Log in to post comments)
Quote of the week Posted Oct 13, 2006 17:24 UTC (Fri) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link] The thing is, by virtue of a driver being out-of-tree, it's always an "untested combination". However, if there were a stable API, this would be less of an issue because the API would (try to) guarantee that a properly-written driver would continue to work. But anyway, with out-of-tree drivers the drivers would be more likely to work with old kernels than new ones, by virtue of the old kernel having been around longer for testing by the driver writer.
|
|||||||||||||