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 kernel modules), but never because the kernel headers are outdated?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 IOW, the only real problem of using outdated kernel headers is not 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