Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:06:08 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi driver trivial |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:37:47 -0400 > Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>> the other serious question is.. how is IRQ_HANDLER_V3 different >>> from a #ifdef VERSION >= 2.6.24 ..... >>> it's not really ;) >> Note my mention of backport -- kernel version isn't relevant when the >> various enterprise distros have random featuresets under random >> kernel versions. >> > > yeah and THEY can put the defines in (RH used to do this fwiw as a > generic "this is a RH kernel" define).... > > but afaik no distro vendor backports such an api change nowadays... and > hasn't in 2.6 ever
People backport drivers all the time that must support a wide range of kernels.
Jeff
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