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| FloMG19 | Good afternoon. I hope it's okay if I ask you a quick question about versioning. The channel should fit more than #ubuntu. | 13:37 |
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| FloMG19 | I checked out the kernel source for linux-headers-5.4.0-126 on different ways. (Git.. Downloading Deb files from security.ubuntu..) and the Makefile says it's 5.4.203.0 I am bit confused as I would expect something like 5.4.126. Also in the modinfo in compiled modules it mentions 5.4.203. Is that right and the compiled modules are going to work with 5.4.0-126? | 13:37 |
| FloMG19 | The reason is that a customer demands a driver binary for that particular kernel version. | 13:38 |
| tjaalton | FloMG19: 5.4.203 comes from upstream. 5.4.0-126 is the packaging revision | 13:40 |
| tjaalton | or abi version to be exact | 13:41 |
| tjaalton | you'd need to rebuild it for every kernel update | 13:41 |
| tjaalton | which is why dkms is handy | 13:41 |
| FloMG19 | But if the customer demands the module as binary for 5.4.0-126 from us, it's totally fine to check out the ubuntu kernel from git with the appropriate task, make modules_prepare and go for it? I don't have to install Ubuntu in an older version for executing DKMS, right? | 13:48 |
| FloMG19 | For newer kernel versions, I'd do the same. But in this industry (Asterisk/ISDN/Dahdi), it seems to be normal to run on deprecated Linux kernels and to not touch the running system. | 13:52 |
| FloMG19 | Then, thank you very much :) And have a nice afternoon | 14:02 |
| tjaalton | in that case, yes | 14:04 |
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