From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:38:29 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4166B475.3080707@pobox.com> References: <4161A06D.8010601@rtr.ca> <416547B6.5080505@rtr.ca> <20041007150709.B12688@infradead.org> <4165624C.5060405@rtr.ca> <416565DB.4050006@pobox.com> <4165A45D.2090200@rtr.ca> <4165A766.1040104@pobox.com> <4165A85D.7080704@rtr.ca> <4165AB1B.8000204@pobox.com> <4165ACF8.8060208@rtr.ca> <20041007221537.A17712@infradead.org> <1097241583.2412.15.camel@mulgrave> <4166AF2F.6070904@rtr.ca> <1097249266.1678.40.camel@mulgrave> <4166B37D.8030701@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:42201 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270035AbUJHPio (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:38:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4166B37D.8030701@rtr.ca> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , Mark Lord , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List 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