Re: Re : ANN: Linux 2.2 driver compatibility toolkit

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:39:55 -0700


On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:27:14PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> For me, the problem between 2.5.X and 2.4.X is the USB API
> which has significantely changed (urb_submit anyone ?). I end up
> having two quite different version of irda-usb to maintain. But
> probably USB in 2.5.X. is too much a moving target for you to include
> in your package.

Heh, this is the first complaint I've had about this, which is quite
surprising :)

I'll be putting most of the 2.5 USB api changes into 2.4 once
2.4.19-final comes out, so then you can go back to having 1 version of
your driver (if you like that kind of thing, personally I don't.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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