[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Building modules

[Michael Meskes]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:27:30PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> a binary module always has to be completely independet of the host 
> systems kernel version at build-time (within some boundaries in special 
> exceptions/occations/corner-cases, such as 2.4 vs 2.6); everything else 
> is RC.

That's what I expected.

> if virtualbox' makefiles do depend on the running kernel version in any 
> way, this needs to be fixed, both for l-m-e-2.6 and for modass.

It's fixed. That's what the new 02 patch is about. I'm still discussing
this patch with innotek to maybe find a simpler solution, but it
definitely works with l-m-e-2.6 as it is. BTW when do you plan to
release a 2.6.23 version of l-m-e-2.6?

Michael
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