Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752422AbXJ0HGi (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:06:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750905AbXJ0HGa (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:06:30 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:60754 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbXJ0HGa (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:06:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4722E360.7000305@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:06:08 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Andrew Morton , "Salyzyn, Mark" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi driver trivial References: <20071019075443.GA6407@havoc.gtf.org> <20071019075808.GH6407@havoc.gtf.org> <20071026143525.b9218ed7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4722608E.3000405@garzik.org> <20071026165035.33383e36@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <47228278.8070505@garzik.org> <20071026171606.4e242f49@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4722885B.7050307@garzik.org> <20071026223137.5e311481@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20071026223137.5e311481@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 31 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:37:47 -0400 > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>> the other serious question is.. how is IRQ_HANDLER_V3 different >>> from a #ifdef VERSION >= 2.6.24 ..... >>> it's not really ;) >> Note my mention of backport -- kernel version isn't relevant when the >> various enterprise distros have random featuresets under random >> kernel versions. >> > > yeah and THEY can put the defines in (RH used to do this fwiw as a > generic "this is a RH kernel" define).... > > but afaik no distro vendor backports such an api change nowadays... and > hasn't in 2.6 ever People backport drivers all the time that must support a wide range of kernels. Jeff - 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/