[elrepo-devel] Two things about kversion

[Alan Bartlett]

On 12 July 2010 17:02, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

If you were just asking me, I'd say "o.k.".

However, I would like to hear both Phil's and Jon's opinions on your suggestion.

Alan.