Re: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:31:52 +1000


On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 04:09:05 -0400,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote:
>> And a version field! Please add a version field right to the
>> beginning. This would make supporting legacy drivers in later versions
>> _much_ easier.
>
>This is not a structure that is directly exposed to userspace, so it
>doesn't need to be versioned.

Will you want modutils support for this new struct? If so it needs
a version field.

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