From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261387AbTDICUw (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:20:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261826AbTDICUw (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:20:52 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:3759 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261387AbTDICUv (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:20:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3E938630.7070001@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:32:16 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: Zwane Mwaikambo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER? References: <20030409015058.9EF0D2C08F@lists.samba.org> In-Reply-To: <20030409015058.9EF0D2C08F@lists.samba.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rusty Russell wrote: > In message <3E925292.8060104@pobox.com> you write: > >>You may take a look at "kcompat" for further examples. >>http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ I provide an example of how to get a >>net driver from 2.4 running under 2.2, such that the 2.4 driver >>-appears- to be completely free of compatibility glue. > > > Interesting. How is this related to the older linux/compatmac.h? It's not related at all to compatmac.h, though there are no doubt duplicate definitions in there. This is mainly my own code, plus tytso's (serial.c), plus Donald Becker's. > Have you thought of actually integrating a 2.4<->2.6 version once > 2.6.0 is out? Oh, I would love to have such items in there... I take patches, and no need to wait for 2.6 either :) Jeff