Message-Id: <200311061606.hA6G6Jf4026228@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Marcel Lanz <marcel.lanz@ds9.ch>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: load 2.4.x binary only module on 2.6 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:58:15 GMT."
             <20031106155815.GQ7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
References: <20031106153004.GA30008@ds9.ch>
            <20031106155815.GQ7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-346720353P";
	 micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:06:11 -0500
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1194
Lines: 36

--==_Exmh_-346720353P
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:58:15 GMT, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk said:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:30:04PM +0100, Marcel Lanz wrote:
> > I have a binary only module for 2.4.x.
> > How much work is it to write a kind of wrapper to load an "old" module
> > on 2.6 ?
> 
> Unfeasible.

http://www.minion.de for a counter-example.  Of course, the NVidia
driver was already built with a wrapper for the 2.4 kernel, so doing a
2.6 version wasn't too bad.

It's really going to depend on which kernel interfaces the module actually
uses, and what the module is doing.

--==_Exmh_-346720353P
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001

iD8DBQE/qnFzcC3lWbTT17ARAuxTAKCXFyQLr2gJ8tHMZwjlCfJH0iDnHQCg7D8a
WvS0IF1BI9ys8Qshw6Z9rNY=
=fqNn
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--==_Exmh_-346720353P--
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/