From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:11:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:11:51 -0400 Received: from 12-224-36-73.client.attbi.com ([12.224.36.73]:8710 "HELO kroah.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 16:11:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:10:51 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Timothy E. Jedlicka - wrk" Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: What to do with all of the USB UHCI drivers in the kernel? Message-ID: <20020521201051.GC2623@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20020520223132.GC25541@kroah.com> <20020521152316.029228C362@bonzo.localdomain.fake> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.20 (i586) Reply-By: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:30:11 -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:23:15AM -0500, Timothy E. Jedlicka - wrk wrote: > greg@kroah.com said: > > Ok, now that 2.5.16 is out, we have a total of 4 different USB UHCI > > controller drivers in the kernel! That's about 3 too many for me :) > > Stupid follow-up question for you. Is it possible for me to stay on 2.4.18, > but test the 2.5.16 USB subsystem? I really don't want to move my whole > system to 2.5.16, but would be willing to experiment with the USB parts. Is > this possible? Can I just rebuild the usb modules - I'm guessing this > wouldn't work, but thought I would ask anyway. Or to ask another way - any > way us 2.4 folks can help? You _might_ want to try dropping the drivers/usb tree from 2.5.x into 2.4 (and the usb files in include/linux/usb*.h too) and see what happens. Odds are the build process will not work, and I think some of the usbfs changes will also not work. But it would be interesting to see what you found :) So in short, I don't think that you could test out the 2.5 code on 2.4. Is there some reason you can't run a 2.5 kernel? Personally I run it on lots of different machines (laptops, desktops, servers, etc.) successfully. If you can't run a 2.5 kernel, you can just take a look through the code, and tell me what you think of that. Readability is one of the criteria I'm going to be using. thanks, greg k-h