how to NOT upgrade to nvidia 7129?

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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R Kimber wrote:
| On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 20:29:44 +1000
| Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
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|>There are two sorts of kernel updates: ones which just fix small bugs
|>and change the version, and ones which change the kernel's ABI (binary
|>interface), via adding or removing members from structures, functions,
|>etc.  When the ABI changes, all modules must be rebuilt.  So it's only
|>upon ABI changes that linux-restricted-modules has to be updated.
|
|
| Thanks.  Things are becoming clearer.  How does one tell that the ABI
| has changed?  A change in which number? I have  2.6.8.1-16.11 and
| 2.6.8.1-16.12 is available.  Presumably this is not an ABI change.  Is
| it any change before the hyphen but not after it?
|
| Also, although the module might still work with an updated (non-
| ABI change) kernel, would I still need to re-install it?
|
| - Richard.

The ABI is embedded in the package name. See for example 2.6.10-5-686.
5 indicates the ABI version. the number you see is the package version.
With hoary the last kernel is linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 version 2.6.10-32
(just to follow the same example).

Fabio

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