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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Mark Lord <lsml@rtr.ca>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:38:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4166B475.3080707@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4166B37D.8030701@rtr.ca>

Mark Lord wrote:
> And the driver will need it's own copy in some versions anyway,
> since this driver will be used on much older/earlier kernels
> than just the ones with the latest libata stuff.


Typically that's done with an out-of-tree compatibility module, such as 
something like kcompat (http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/), which provides 
a modern driver API to older kernels.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-08 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-04 19:11 [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 Mark Lord
2004-10-07 13:42 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 14:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-07 15:35     ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 15:50       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 20:17         ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 20:30           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 20:34             ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 20:46               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 20:54                 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 21:15                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-07 22:03                     ` Mark Lord
2004-10-20 15:44                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-07 23:39                     ` PATCH] " Mark Lord
2004-10-13 18:56                       ` [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc4 Mark Lord
2004-10-08 13:19                     ` [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 James Bottomley
2004-10-08 15:15                       ` Mark Lord
2004-10-08 15:27                         ` James Bottomley
2004-10-08 15:34                           ` Mark Lord
2004-10-08 15:38                             ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-08 16:01                             ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 17:00                               ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:05                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:09                                   ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 17:31                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-08 15:38                           ` Mark Lord
2004-10-08 15:47                             ` James Bottomley
2004-10-08 15:49                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 16:59                               ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:03                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:14                                   ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:19                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:23                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:17                                 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 17:22                                   ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:30                                     ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 17:33                                       ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 17:42                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:51                                           ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 18:12                                             ` James Bottomley
2004-10-12 18:36                                               ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 18:25                                             ` driver hacking tips (was Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3) Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 19:18                                               ` Mark Lord
2004-10-12 19:40                                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-12 17:34                                     ` [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 20:31           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-07 20:35           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 21:16 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-07 21:44   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-07 21:45   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 20:04   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 22:16     ` Mark Lord
2004-10-13 22:41       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-13 23:24         ` Mark Lord
2004-10-13 23:39           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-14 16:30             ` Mark Lord
2004-10-14 16:37               ` Mark Lord
2004-10-14 16:52               ` [PATCH] Export ata_scsi_simulate() for use by non-libata drivers Mark Lord
2004-10-14 17:04                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-14 18:44                   ` Mark Lord
2004-10-15  5:04                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-15 13:25                       ` John W. Linville
2004-10-15 14:59                         ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-15 15:38                           ` Jeff Garzik

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