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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
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Subject: Re: ANN: Linux 2.2 driver compatibility toolkit
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Ion Badulescu wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:40:18 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> 
>>Don't load your drivers up with 2.2.x compatibility junk.  Write a 2.4.x 
>>driver... and use this toolkit to make it work under 2.2.
> 
> 
> Now, if you could get Alan to include it in 2.2.next, that would be even
> better. I could probably drop 90% of the cruft I have in starfire-kcomp22.h...



Absolutely....  I haven't mentioned this to Alan specifically, but it is 
indeed a direction I would like to go.  A good step would be getting 
your help to make sure that starfire works with kcompat24 (perhaps with 
minor patching)  :)  If we have tested patches ready for 2.2 that will 
go a long way towards winning Alan's acceptance, I'm sure.

Another idea I just had:  a good way to introduce kcompat24 to 2.2 is to 
use it to add a few 2.4.x-only net drivers to 2.2.  That way nothing 
changes [initially], only additions are made.

	Jeff


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