* Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>, 2008-10-10 17:02:02 Fri: > Natanael Copa wrote: > > I can only speak for me, but i think 2.6.27 needs a few dot releleases > > before i consider upgrade. Even 2.6.26 is considered "unstable/testing" > > for Gentoo hardened. > > > > OT, but initially the whole drivers in the kernel thing used to seem > like a good idea to me. However, as time goes by I find myself on the > kernel treadmill, it's the old: got a new motherboard, personally happy > with kernel 2.6.something_old.fixed, but I need some new driver for the > hardware from some newer kernel and it's suddenly a game of is it easier > to backport the driver or upgrade the kernel... > > In comparison on windoze I can usually apply a given driver to large > variations in OS version. It would be nice to perhaps see the kernel > figure out some way to modularise this a bit so that we aren't always on > a treadmill to new versions just for fairly minor driver updates... > Alsa and DVB seem to be good examples of one foot in, one foot out of > the kernel tree and usually can be updated independently. this is tampering at kernel level... if you would do similar things to kern32.dll, i think you'll run into freaky problems... and even tampering with the kernel isn't really "possible" unless you want to change the binary itself... just sayin'... ;) -- Rik Bobbaers -- http://harry.enzoverder.be