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On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros |
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> introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel. |
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RedHat is particularly bad about this. I maintain a couple Linux |
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drivers that have to work with a wide range of kernel versions. There |
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are lot's of #ifdef's that depend on not only the kernel and some of |
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them also have to check whether it's a _RedHat_ kernel or not, since |
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RedHat is fond of shipping a kernel with version X.Y.Z that isn't even |
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close to compatible with the driver API for vanilla kernel X.Y.Z. |
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> With Gentoo, it's even more complicated, as most experienced |
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> Gentooroids will configure and compile their own kernels. |
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I've never had to add special code to a driver to handle the Gentoo |
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version of a kernel. |
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Grant |
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