Re: ANN: Linux 2.2 driver compatibility toolkit

[Jeff Garzik]

Ion Badulescu wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:40:18 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]> 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