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Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> > > say I have very lean kernel on the target, how I can compile |
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> > > against the target kernel? |
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> > This is a non-issue for most packages because the kernel interface |
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> > can be considered stable. |
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> No, they can't, especially in embedded world. |
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Obviously there is a limit to every definition of stable. But it is |
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my impression that Linux does not change API at a whim. |
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> The biggest problem is certain ill-designed packages which try to |
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> guess something from the *running* system. This can only be solved |
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> in the source. |
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Sure, and this is a problem with individual packages. Not so much |
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with the kernel. The packages can be fixed. |
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> > Do you have a problem with some package? |
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> Just from the tip of my head, in recent years: network utils, |
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> drbd, etc, ... |
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Because the recommended API to use was changed, or? |
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//Peter |