Slackware upgrade woes

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:16:30PM -0700, jim grimsby wrote:
> From what I understand and I am sure you know
> better then I compiling it as modules means that you will not have to
> worry about lucing speakup every time you update the kernel. 

Wrong, since you need to rebuild the modules every time you move to a
different kernel version. Even if you were right above, losing speakup
still wouldn't be a factor, as long as you remembered to patch the new
kernel with speakup, which you would have to do anyway whenever you
installed a new kernel version with new modules. You can load older
modules into newer kernels, but as far as I understand things, doing
so is asking for trouble (I.E. symbol mismatches), and it is
recommended that you rebuild the modules to match the new kernel,
provided that you can do so (I.E. the source needed to build the
module is not proprietary).

Greg


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