From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Deven Balani <devenbalani@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: reference code for non-PCI libata complaint SATA for ARM boards.
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:16:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051026131604.GA24567@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a37e95e0510252258k621b46efj4d37c2ceed00dfeb@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:28:10AM +0530, Deven Balani wrote:
> But I have a problem my other drivers are 2.4.25 compliant. So it is
> a huge work
> to make all other drivers 2.6 compliant and use libata-core.c.
> I believe it is far more easier to have 2.4.x libata rather than
> porting my drivers to
> 2.6.x.
Porting drivers to 2.6 isn't too hard. LWN has a nice tutorial, see
http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ .
> What do you suggest me ?
Use 2.6, especially with new hardware. The 2.4 kernel on ARM is no
longer supported, all development has moved to 2.6 almost two years
ago.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-26 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-25 12:11 reference code for non-PCI libata complaint SATA for ARM boards Deven Balani
2005-10-25 15:37 ` Alan Cox
2005-10-25 17:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-26 5:58 ` Deven Balani
2005-10-26 13:16 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2005-11-14 8:22 ` Deven Balani
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