From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= Subject: Re: Aic7xxx v6.2.22 and Aic79xx v1.3.0Alpha2 Released Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 22:55:17 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021214223934.P3547-100000@localhost.my.domain> References: <20021211153935.A23704@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20021211153935.A23704@infradead.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote: [...] > linux driver interface change between stable series, face it. And a = driver > with tons of ifdefs is utter crap. Interestingly only vendor driver = use > that shitty scheme. You just miss that new hardware must be supported for both stable and current kernels and that differences in driver interface use to be larg= e between adjacent stable and current in Linux. On the other hand driver interfaces in current kernel seem to be changing as new features come t= o mind to developpers. Add to that mess that not all Linux based O/S are using kernel at same level. Btw, people who want to learn about how to design and maintain a smart driver interface that can evolve gracefully without breaking driver zillions of times should ask Justin how it does this so well with =46reeBSD/CAM, in my opinion. G=E9rard. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html