kernel vs module versioning at insmod-time ... confused!!

From: Bill Halchin (bill.halchin_at_osatechnologies.com)
Date: 07/24/03 

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:57:27 GMT

Hello,

     In our company there is an ongoing debate on this issue. We are
distributing the binary of a driver. Do we have to build a driver binary
for each different kernel binary's "kernel_version" string. Is this true? (I
am currently reading the insmod.c source. I reread Rubini 2nd edition. He
says that there a simple comparision between the kernel's "kernel_version"
with the module's "kernel_version". Please help me understand how versioning
participates in module loading!

Regards, Bill

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