Re: [CentOS] Request for good advice to upgrade kernel

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 02:05:46PM +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

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kernel 2.6.9-34.EL still is based on kernel.org's 2.6.9 kernel, but has at least 700 patches in it (that is added up for all architectures, so your i386 kernel doesn't really have 700 patches applied to it). But the kernel-API is still the same as in 2.6.9 (later 2.6.x kernels have a different one).

And there you are wrong.

I give you the exemple of slmodemd, where you have to change it so it detects the CentOS kernel as if it were 2.6.10+. Otherwise, it won't even compile, due to difference on the headers.

Hmmmm. Compiled fine without any changes here. slmodemd-2.9.10 that is.

Ralph