Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:03:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: New resources - pls, explain :-( |
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On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > Neat, easy and a complete nightmare for back compatibility and driver > maintenance. What is wrong with struct io_device ?
The fact that backwards compatibility goes away, but forwards compatibility never does?
Do we want to get into the morass of DOS, where we can't do the right thing just because we have some old drivers we want to support? You can have your network drivers do something like
#if VERSION < 2.3.x #define net_device device #endif
and you're done with it.
Linus
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