Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: 2.3.51 tulip broken | Date | 17 Mar 2000 22:47:35 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.1000317022843.21871C-100000@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>It does not mean that at all. Look at current acenic or rrunner >drivers for example. It is ENTIRELY possible to create a 2.3 driver >which is fully backwards compatible with 2.0 and 2.2.
You provoked my curiousity and I tried to build the acenic driver from 2.3.51 on 2.0.28+logo. ``fully backwards compatable'' is not really the phrase that came to mind when the 10,000 error messages went scrolling on by.
____ david parsons \bi/ And they were very impressive error messages, too. \/
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