Theodore Y. Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... Since building kernel modules require that header files match > exactly (think /usr/include/linux/modversions.h), that means that I > would have to tell naive, non-developer users that they first have to: > > 1) download kernel sources from ftp.kernel.org, > 2) configure a kernel to match their hardware configuration, > 3) build their own kernel > 4) install their own kernel, and only then can they > 5) build my device driver > > I hope people can understand why this would be a complete non-starter > for a certain class of users, and why I might refuse to support my a > kernel module on any distribution that made such a user-hostile design > decision....
But for the general case, that's exactly what you have to do. Even naive users can download a new kernel version and try building it. At which point... [But, hey, for only another 600k (significantly less if comments are stripped) you could put the compressed include files in the kernel itself... </joke>] -- Raul
