Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 09:52 -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 22:35 -0700, 4Front Technologies wrote:
> > 
> >>BTW, why is Mandriva the only distro to turn OFF REGPARM?. Again, I think 
> >>distros shouldn't be given an option to turn it off if its a good thing to have.
> 
> > why not? It's not like it's a dramatic change of API after all... (and
> > even if it were...)
> > 
> > external modules shouldn't care, they really really should inherit the
> > cflags from the kernel's makefiles at which point.. the thing is moot.
> 
> Speaking from personal experience...there are a LOT of 3rd party drivers 
> out there that do not build their modules properly. 

yup there are. sad but true ;(

>  It gets especially 
> interesting when they want to have a single package support 2.4 and 2.6, 
> and also link the result against an included binary blob.

well if a binary blob is involved you've lost already in many ways.


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