From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: ANN: Linux 2.2 driver compatibility toolkit
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:47:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D07CF81.30904@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206111707.g5BH7qA10658@buggy.badula.org>
Ion Badulescu wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:40:18 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>
>>Don't load your drivers up with 2.2.x compatibility junk. Write a 2.4.x
>>driver... and use this toolkit to make it work under 2.2.
>
>
> Now, if you could get Alan to include it in 2.2.next, that would be even
> better. I could probably drop 90% of the cruft I have in starfire-kcomp22.h...
Absolutely.... I haven't mentioned this to Alan specifically, but it is
indeed a direction I would like to go. A good step would be getting
your help to make sure that starfire works with kcompat24 (perhaps with
minor patching) :) If we have tested patches ready for 2.2 that will
go a long way towards winning Alan's acceptance, I'm sure.
Another idea I just had: a good way to introduce kcompat24 to 2.2 is to
use it to add a few 2.4.x-only net drivers to 2.2. That way nothing
changes [initially], only additions are made.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-12 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-10 21:40 ANN: Linux 2.2 driver compatibility toolkit Jeff Garzik
2002-06-11 17:07 ` Ion Badulescu
2002-06-12 22:47 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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