[clue-tech] Shame shame

[David L. Anselmi]

David L. Willson wrote:
[...]
> Yes, the behavior is exactly like the Nvidia graphics driver.  If/when you upgrade your
> kernel, it breaks, and you have to rebuild it.
> 
> I don't think that necessarily implies that unknown versions are unlikely to work,
> though, do you?

It does, but I don't know whether the breakage is as likely from 2.6.15 
to 2.6.20 as from 2.6.x to 2.7.x.  The reason they are unlikely to work 
at some point is that the kernel developers are guaranteed to change the 
API to break them:

http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html

http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/11/21/#gpl_pci_core

Dave