Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PNP patch into kernel when? | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:18:09 -0500 (EST) | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> |
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> > Yes, but it will cause needless heartache to people who try to maintain > > compatibility with more than one version of the kernel (as is the case for > > quite a lot of 3rd-party drivers). You'll end up with every driver having > > something like > [snip] > > there is stuff like this in many drivers already ... > > > and you will upset people who want modules to be binary compatible. > > binary modules are expected to break from one development kernel > to the next. People who want to be binary compatible should use > stable kernels :-)
One thing that crossed my mind...hasn't module compatibility _already_ been broken because of the v2.1.* changes? (I don't know, so I'm asking.)
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/ XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html
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