Re: compat-drivers for older kernels

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On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jonathan David (AA-DG/PAO-ENG1)
<David.Jonathan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification.  I'll certainly return patches if/when I am successful.
>
> One more thing I'm betting you can answer relates to the LINUX_VERSION macros: How do you find in what kernel version a feature changed (e.g. tty->driver->write became tty->ops->write)?  I can't imagine it's by inspection,  yet a cross-reference site like lxr.linux.no, which should be able to spit that out, does not.

I've documented this here:

https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/compat#Tracking_down_when_a_feature_went_upstream

  Luis
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