> > Does that mean that two seperate trees of a driver are being > > maintained? (One "in-kernel" version tighly coupled with the kernel > > version, and an "independent module" version that is compatible with > > all the kernels? > > > some but very very few people do that. > the general idea that most people have is to only work on the latest > version of the driver, as part of the latest kernel. > the misguided people who want to use old kernels bear the pain and cost > of backporting the latest drivers to those kernels ;-) In the Kernel Janitors TODO list, Greg suggested that all the redundant pci_find_* to be updated with pci_get_device etc.. He also suggests that it should not be done for drivers that are 2.4 compatible. Hence trying to understand how to figure out 2.4 compatible one's. > -spn -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
