On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 18:15 -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > I'd rather you not kill linux_compat.h file. > I use this file for compatibility of driver source > across various kernel versions. I provide our > customers with driver builds containing single source > which needs to compile in kernels 2.6.5( e.g. SLES9), > 2.6.8 (e.g. RHEL4), and 2.6.11 ( e.g. SuSE 9.3 Pro). It is the general policy that the source in the latest linux kernel only supports that kernel. You can certainly keep a compat header for your customers, but what is in kernel.org should be clean for that version of the kernel. > If you look at our 3.02.18 driver source I submitted to SuSE > for SLES9 SP2, you will see this file is about 3K bytes of > compatibility. Is the 3.02.18 code generally available now? Can it be cleaned up for submission to 2.6.13? -tduffy
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