From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 09:26:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24827.975662789@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001130203703Z129437-440+118@vger.kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001130203703Z129437-440+118@vger.kernel.org> <200011301803.eAUI3Pu16137@webber.adilger.net>
ttabi@interactivesi.com said:
> Not necessarily - it all depends on what your driver does. In many
> cases, supporting 2.2 and 2.4 is easy, and all you need are a few
> #if's. It's certainly much better to have a dozen or so #if's
> sprinkled throughout the code than to have two separate source trees,
> and have to make the same change to multiple files.
It's even better to do it without the ugly preprocessor magic - see
include/linux/compatmac.h
There are a few things missing from there - include/linux/mtd/compatmac.h
has more. One day we'll get round to removing the latter and merging it
into the main one, hopefully.
--
dwmw2
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-28 2:51 Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !! John B. Jacobsen
2000-11-30 17:19 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-30 17:32 ` Meelis Roos
2000-11-30 18:03 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-11-30 19:16 ` Mark Hahn
2000-11-30 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-30 20:06 ` Timur Tabi
2000-12-01 9:26 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-12-01 19:43 ` David Schleef
2000-12-01 17:25 ` Jeff Garzik
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