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From: Tom Duffy <tduffy@sun.com>
To: "Moore, Eric Dean" <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus	ion
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:30:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121200220.13708.17.camel@duffman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91888D455306F94EBD4D168954A9457C030A908F@nacos172.co.lsil.com>

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On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 18:15 -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> I'd rather you not kill linux_compat.h file.
> I use this file for compatibility of driver source 
> across various kernel versions.  I provide our
> customers with driver builds containing single source 
> which needs to compile in kernels 2.6.5( e.g. SLES9),
> 2.6.8 (e.g. RHEL4), and 2.6.11 ( e.g. SuSE 9.3 Pro).

It is the general policy that the source in the latest linux kernel only
supports that kernel.  You can certainly keep a compat header for your
customers, but what is in kernel.org should be clean for that version of
the kernel.

> If you look at our 3.02.18 driver source I submitted to SuSE
> for SLES9 SP2, you will see this file is about 3K bytes of
> compatibility.  

Is the 3.02.18 code generally available now?  Can it be cleaned up for
submission to 2.6.13?

-tduffy

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-12 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-11  0:15 [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus ion Moore, Eric Dean
2005-07-12 20:30 ` Tom Duffy [this message]
2005-07-13  2:16 ` Matt Domsch
2005-07-13 14:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-12 20:50 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-07-12 20:56 ` Tom Duffy
2005-07-12 22:14 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-12 22:34 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-07-13 15:11 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-07-20  0:07 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-07-20  3:12 ` Matt Domsch
2005-07-20  4:28   ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-07-20  5:09   ` Moore, Eric Moore
2005-07-20  8:30   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-07-20 12:48   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-07-20 17:54   ` Nathan Lynch
2005-07-20 18:22     ` Matt Domsch
2005-07-20 17:55 ` Nish Aravamudan

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