From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Hareesh Nagarajan <hareesh@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Porting kref to a 2.4 kernel (2.4.20 or greater)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:34:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050616183412.GB11378@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42B0B017.60001@google.com>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 03:47:51PM -0700, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> Correction:
> (Appears with a *)
>
> Greg KH wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:20:04AM -0700, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> >
> >>What stumbling blocks do you think I would encounter if I wanted to port
> >>kref to a 2.4.xx kernel? Is kref tightly coupled with the kernel object
> >>infrastructure found in the 2.6.xx kernel?
> >
> >Have you looked at the kref code to see if there is any such coupling?
>
> Not really. Kref seems pretty light and loosely coupled with the 2.6
> kernel. There just appears to be a C file (and a .h of course).
Exactly, that code should have no problems working in 2.4.
Good luck,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-15 17:20 Porting kref to a 2.4 kernel (2.4.20 or greater) Hareesh Nagarajan
2005-06-15 22:07 ` Greg KH
2005-06-15 22:38 ` Hareesh Nagarajan
2005-06-15 22:47 ` Hareesh Nagarajan
2005-06-16 9:18 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-06-16 16:45 ` Hareesh Nagarajan
2005-06-16 18:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
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