[elrepo] Announcement: EL5: Updated kmod-video4linux packages now available

[Nigel Jewell]

  On 15/08/2010 10:27, Phil Perry wrote:
> If the older 0.0-5.20090615 package works for you then I'd suggest you
> stick with that and maybe then add an excludes line to the yum config
> file for elrepo to prevent it being updated in future.
>
> The longer explanation is that the v4l/DVB project aims to maintain a
> source tree that will compile against kernels from 2.6.17 upwards, which
> is great for EL5 as that is based on a 2.6.18 kernel. However, some
> modules sometimes introduce functionality that relies on features only
> present in later kernels which effectively breaks those modules when
> built on earlier kernels like that in EL5, so the source tree keeps a
> list of which modules require newer kernels (versions.txt) so they only
> get built against those kernels.

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the prompt reply and explanation.  I suspected that may be 
the case.  I'll stick to the old release as it has been working fine.

Kind Regards,
Nige.