Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Folks Nearing the end of my journey now (Gentoo to Debian migration.) Setting up VMware Workstation from the official distribution (this is the commercial one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware modules are compiled with the same version of gcc. I

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/20 Matthew Smith m...@smiffytech.com: Hi Folks Nearing the end of my journey now (Gentoo to Debian migration.)  Setting up VMware Workstation from the official distribution (this is the commercial one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware modules are

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:33:15 +1030 Matthew Smith m...@smiffytech.com wrote: ... I derived the .config for the kernel I am building from /proc/config.gz This is a HUGE build, taking forever. May sound like a daft question, but is the ease-of-use of the stock kernel due to the fact that

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware modules are compiled with the same version of gcc. Are you sure that module-assistant wouldn't be able to build the module you need without having to rebuild the whole kernel? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Cao
On 2009-03-20, Adrian Levi adrian.l...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/20 Matthew Smith m...@smiffytech.com: Hi Folks Nearing the end of my journey now (Gentoo to Debian migration.)  Setting up VMware Workstation from the official distribution (this is the commercial one that I use) requires me to

Re: Stock kernel - it works everywhere because?

2009-03-20 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Stefan Monnier at 2009-03-21 00:15... one that I use) requires me to re-build the kernel so that it and the VMware modules are compiled with the same version of gcc. Are you sure that module-assistant wouldn't be able to build the module you need without having to rebuild the whole