On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:35:15PM -0500, Dan Eisenhut wrote: >> Hello. I'm writing a gadget driver for an existing system running on >> a 2.6.10 kernel on a TI Davinici 6446 chip (ARM). Due to time >> constraints and for risk reduction, upgrading this to the latest >> kernel is not an option as much as I would want to. > > 2.6.10? Are you really using that kernel version? You do realize just > how old and out of date it is, right? Oh, and how insecure it is as > well... I am perfectly aware of how old it is. But the architecture of the kernel has changed so much since then that I'd basically be recreating all of the board support files to port it (without good documentation) and hope that the new kernel doesn't break the existing application. Seems silly to do when the only kernel change that is needed is the addition of a new usb driver and a some modifications to the application to use it. And this device won't be on a network or accessible (without tearing the thing apart), just talking USB to another system. So security (or insecurity as the case may be) is not an issue. > Also note, you are totally on your own working with that version, > there's not much anyone from the community can help with this, sorry. > > good luck, Sounds like fun. Thanks, Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
