From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill acient compat cruft from acenic
Date: 28 Feb 2004 13:27:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq01xofgiu5.fsf@wildopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040227205729.GB20398@lst.de>
>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
Christoph> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 03:55:41PM -0500, Jeff Garzik
Christoph> wrote:
>> Christoph Hellwig wrote: >Kills lots of really old cruft and adds a
>> little cruft to actually >make the driver work with recent 2.4
>> again.
>>
>>
>> Since kcompat (http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/) lets PCI API
>> drivers work in 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6, I am OK with applying this
>> patch...... assuming there is a second patch coming to convert to
>> pci_driver API.
Christoph> Jes said he doesn't care for 2.2 and early 2.4 anymore
Christoph> which makes life much easier without external compat cruft.
Christoph> As soon as this patch is in Linus' tree I'll send you a
Christoph> followup.
Yeah I am happy to kill support for < 2.4.18 in the driver. But don't
add that offset_in_page macro please, it's butt ugly.
Cheers,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-28 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-27 20:25 [PATCH] kill acient compat cruft from acenic Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-27 20:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-27 20:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-27 20:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-28 18:27 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2004-02-28 18:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-29 19:10 ` Jes Sorensen
2004-02-29 18:29 ` Jeff Garzik
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