On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:15 +0530, Surya wrote: > > > 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. just assume none are.... at this point nobody really cares about 2.4 anymore, and those who do have a split/separate driver, too many deltas -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
