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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: jes@wildopensource.com
Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.70] acenic -- update to use alloc_etherdev
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:04:45 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030611.210445.21901735.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3y90845nu.fsf@trained-monkey.org>

   From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
   Date: 11 Jun 2003 18:21:09 -0400

   >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> writes:
   
   Stephen> Updated acenic driver to use alloc_etherdev to hold private
   Stephen> data structure.  Uses register_netdev() to get the name right
   Stephen> this time ;-)
   
   Please provide a compat macro for 2.4.18 and younger as well.

How actively are you maintaining acenic. Jes?  :-)  This is
a very serious question, I haven't seen a 2.5.x change go back
to 2.4.x since it's inception.

All this compat nonsense is becoming useless.  Other drivers
fair just fine 2.4.x/2.5.x without all this ifdef mumbo-jumbo
that litters acenic.c and makes it nearly impossible to read.

In fact all these localized compat macros make acenic.c HARDER
to maintain.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-12  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-11 21:42 [PATCH 2.5.70] acenic -- update to use alloc_etherdev Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-11 22:21 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-06-12  4:04   ` David S. Miller [this message]
     [not found]     ` <3EE81263.4040205@osdl.org>
2003-06-12  5:43       ` David S. Miller
2003-06-12 17:05       ` Jes Sorensen
2003-06-12  5:44     ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-12 17:01     ` Jes Sorensen

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