[CentOS-devel] Zero day updates upstream
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Fri Mar 16 00:58:54 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> As for working with driver disks - the RHEL kernels are supposed to have
> stable binary driver interfaces for the life of the distribution. And
> if an update kernel doesn't work with a needed vendor driver, there
> wasn't much point in getting past the install anyway.
>
the problem with that is that lots of vendors ( Areca for example ) ship
updated bits of various code and scripts in their DD's - which checks
for the specific version of the running kernel and sometimes even other
packages...
so while it works from this end, it does not work from all the other
ends ( i suppose it does, but people are just checking for the wrong
things before complaining that its not compatible )
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