From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi driver trivial
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:06:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4722E360.7000305@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071026223137.5e311481@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:37:47 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>
>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> the other serious question is.. how is IRQ_HANDLER_V3 different
>>> from a #ifdef VERSION >= 2.6.24 .....
>>> it's not really ;)
>> Note my mention of backport -- kernel version isn't relevant when the
>> various enterprise distros have random featuresets under random
>> kernel versions.
>>
>
> yeah and THEY can put the defines in (RH used to do this fwiw as a
> generic "this is a RH kernel" define)....
>
> but afaik no distro vendor backports such an api change nowadays... and
> hasn't in 2.6 ever
People backport drivers all the time that must support a wide range of
kernels.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-27 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 7:54 [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:55 ` [PATCH 1/9] irq-remove: core Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 17:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 19:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 23:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 23:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 23:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:55 ` [PATCH 2/9] irq-remove: arch non-trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 16:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-19 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 7:56 ` [PATCH 3/9] irq-remove: arch trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:56 ` [PATCH 4/9] irq-remove: driver non-trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:57 ` [PATCH 5/9] irq-remove: net driver trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:57 ` [PATCH 6/9] irq-remove: sound " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:58 ` [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 13:00 ` Salyzyn, Mark
2007-10-26 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-26 21:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-26 23:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27 0:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-27 0:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27 0:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-27 5:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27 7:06 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-27 7:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-27 14:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-19 7:58 ` [PATCH 8/9] irq-remove: " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:59 ` [PATCH 9/9] irq-remove: misc fixes and cleanups Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 14:53 ` [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-19 18:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-19 19:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 19:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-19 19:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:45 ` Mark Gross
2007-10-20 6:07 ` Greg KH
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