On 2011-12-10, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > And even you can't guarantee that the kernels are the same. Many distros > introduce their own distro-specific patches to the vanilla kernel.
RedHat is particularly bad about this. I maintain a couple Linux drivers that have to work with a wide range of kernel versions. There are lot's of #ifdef's that depend on not only the kernel and some of them also have to check whether it's a _RedHat_ kernel or not, since RedHat is fond of shipping a kernel with version X.Y.Z that isn't even close to compatible with the driver API for vanilla kernel X.Y.Z. > With Gentoo, it's even more complicated, as most experienced > Gentooroids will configure and compile their own kernels. I've never had to add special code to a driver to handle the Gentoo version of a kernel. -- Grant
