Re: [CentOS-devel] Zero day updates upstream

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 )