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On Friday 20 March 2009 03:52:10 Jorge Morais wrote: |
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> This was a doubt of mine. One of the reasons I prefer to use a stable |
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> kernel is that I don't know if, when using a newer (and ~x86) kernel, |
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> I should also use the corresponding linux-headers version. So you say |
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> I can be 99.999% sure that, should I update my kernel (say, to 2.6.28) |
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> and meet problems, those will be intrinsic to this kernel version |
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> (and possibly to incompatibilities with things like out-of-tree |
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> kernel modules), but never because the kernel headers are outdated? |
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Yes |
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> IOW, the only real problem of using outdated kernel headers is not |
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> fully taking advantage of new features? |
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Yes |
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