Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 May 2002 13:10:51 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: What to do with all of the USB UHCI drivers in the kernel? |
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On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:23:15AM -0500, Timothy E. Jedlicka - wrk wrote: > greg@kroah.com said: > > Ok, now that 2.5.16 is out, we have a total of 4 different USB UHCI > > controller drivers in the kernel! That's about 3 too many for me :) > > Stupid follow-up question for you. Is it possible for me to stay on 2.4.18, > but test the 2.5.16 USB subsystem? I really don't want to move my whole > system to 2.5.16, but would be willing to experiment with the USB parts. Is > this possible? Can I just rebuild the usb modules - I'm guessing this > wouldn't work, but thought I would ask anyway. Or to ask another way - any > way us 2.4 folks can help?
You _might_ want to try dropping the drivers/usb tree from 2.5.x into 2.4 (and the usb files in include/linux/usb*.h too) and see what happens.
Odds are the build process will not work, and I think some of the usbfs changes will also not work. But it would be interesting to see what you found :)
So in short, I don't think that you could test out the 2.5 code on 2.4. Is there some reason you can't run a 2.5 kernel? Personally I run it on lots of different machines (laptops, desktops, servers, etc.) successfully.
If you can't run a 2.5 kernel, you can just take a look through the code, and tell me what you think of that. Readability is one of the criteria I'm going to be using.
thanks,
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