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Re: A generic kernel compatibilty code

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Everyone and their mother reinvents the wheel when it comes to
>> backporting kernel modules. It a painful job and it seems to me an
>> alternative is possible. If we can write generic compatibilty code for
>> a new routine introduced on the next kernel how about just merging it
>> to the kernel under some generic compat module. This would be
>> completey ignored by everyone using the stable kernel but can be
>> copied by anyone doing backport work.
>>
>> So I'm thinking something as simple as a generic compat/comat.ko with
>> compat-2.6.32.[ch] files.
>
> FWIW, I meant a compat-2.6.32.[ch] and compat-2.6.31.[ch] and so on.
> All these would link to the compat.ko

I supose this could juse be a separate tree with some generic
compat.ko module. That might work better.

  Luis
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