[elrepo-devel] Two things about kversion

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> On 22 April 2010 00:35, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 10:04 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> On 04/20/2010 03:29 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:

>>> > (1) Which version of kernel should a kmod package be built against?
>>
>>> i vote for the oldest possible version which is good enough to build it

>> I would also recommend building against the oldest kernel that you want
>> to be using.
>>
>> Jon.
>
> Resurrecting this thread . . .
>
> Having had internal discussions (mainly Phil & I, by telephone) and
> gradual, incremental refinements to the ELRepo kmod build process for
> EL5 (as a result of establishing a similar process for EL6), I would
> like to draw your attention to the e1000e kmod package that I have
> just updated (to version 1.2.8) today.
>
> The src.rpm file [1] is an example of building against the oldest
> kernel (5.0, -8.el5, in this case) and provides packages that are kABI
> compatible with the entire range of released kernels (5.0 to 5.5,
> -8.el5 to -194.8.1.el5).
>
> Of course both the kmodspec-el5 [2] and kmodtool-el5 [3] template
> files also provide generic examples.
>
> Alan.
>
> [1] http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/SRPMS/e1000e-kmod-1.2.8_NAPI-1.el5.elrepo.src.rpm
> [2] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmodspec-el5
> [3] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmodtool-el5

Thanks for resurrecting this thread.

I have one proposal. kmodspec has a changelog. Can we have something
similar for kmodtool? That would make it easy to track down all the
customization done to the file.

Akemi