Jeremy Henty wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I've wondered, in the case of the kernel, whether is would be >> beneficial to release the drivers as a separate tarball on a >> different release schedule. I think that's where most of the >> changes occur. In an uncompressed kernel tarball, the drivers are >> 260M of 532M total. > > That will not happen in the forseeable future because the internal API > between the kernel and the drivers is unstable between versions and > the kernel devs have made it *very* clear that they consider this a > feature, not a bug. Separating the two would achieve nothing except > to create more opportunities to build a broken system.
Hmm. OK. I suppose the drawbacks outweigh any benefits. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
