Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:53:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:53:30 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:45828 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:53:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3D07D022.5030106@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:50:10 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/00200205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jt@hpl.hp.com CC: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Re : ANN: Linux 2.2 driver compatibility toolkit In-Reply-To: <20020610174050.A21783@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > Jeff Garzik 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. > > > Actually, wouldn't it be better to have people writting 2.5.X > driver and having your toolkit enabling them for 2.4.X and 2.2.X ? Sure, that would be fine too. The main user demand has been for 2.4.x drivers on 2.2.x. If there is demand for 2.0.x driver support or, what you describe, 2.5.x driver support on 2.[24].x, that's a good direction to head towards. I haven't seen any requests for that from driver authors yet. > Also, have you looked at the Pcmcia package, David Hinds has a > pretty complete compatibility toolkit going back to 1.2.X, and used by > many Pcmcia drivers (it's actually pretty amazing to see all those > Pcmcia drivers working regardless). Maybe you could propose David a > merge of the two (you get some more code and some more userbase). > Yes, of course, NIH... I am sadly guilty of "NIH" in several cases, but actually this is not one of them :) I think that kcompat24 provides a bit more of a complete compatibility package than the other solutions. So, I would like to borrow code from pcmcia and other sources to make this toolkit even better. (patches accepted! :)) 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/