15 Feb
2019
15 Feb
'19
12:19 a.m.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:09:04 -0800 Laura Abbott labbott@redhat.com wrote:
Can anyone see major problems with requiring the same toolchain version for building external modules as the kernel?
If gcc is updated between Fedora kernel versions and someone wants to build a module, it would build but be unuseable? If that is true, then gcc updates should just be released at the same time as a kernel built with them to finesse the issue.
I suspect that this would be a rare issue in practice. Oops, I forgot about rpmfusion, where they do build modules, and akmod which builds modules automatically when a new kernel is released. That would make it more likely to occur, I think.