Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263784AbTKFRnt (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:43:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263785AbTKFRnt (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:43:49 -0500 Received: from out008pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.108]:12518 "EHLO out008.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263784AbTKFRnX (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:43:23 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: load 2.4.x binary only module on 2.6 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:43:19 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Marcel Lanz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031106153004.GA30008@ds9.ch> <20031106155815.GQ7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <200311061606.hA6G6Jf4026228@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200311061606.hA6G6Jf4026228@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311061243.19536.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out008.verizon.net from [151.205.62.77] at Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:43:19 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1267 Lines: 34 On Thursday 06 November 2003 11:06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >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 may be there, and I may have a copy of it, but it won't install if I'm running 2.6.0-test9-mm2. >It's really going to depend on which kernel interfaces the module > actually uses, and what the module is doing. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - 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/