> What about companies that maintain closed source driver modules for their
> hardware?
> I know a lot of people here will say, 'well they should open source them
> then'. However, some companies don't want to for their own reasons and
> this 'could' blow them out the water a bit and affect end users.
If a different compiler version is known to break (and Keith says he has
seen that in practice, and I can see it happen as well given that a few
kernel headers depend on compiler version), the vendor in question is better
off being informed about the incompatibility. He _already_ has to have an
exact match on the kernel version and the other symbols, so adding the
compiler to that is not an extra burden, just a "oh we goofed" prevention..
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