Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Locking Between User Context and Soft IRQs in 2.4.0 | Date | Mon, 06 Nov 2000 23:37:16 +1100 |
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On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 05:05:42 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote: >With the latest patch I've seen, there is no -need- to >immediately update the drivers. Once the patch is applied, I can clean >the drivers while I'm cleaning up request_region and the other stuff.
I prefer a requirement that all net drivers upgrade to the new interface, otherwise we have odd drivers using the old interface forever and being at risk of module unload. That is why I coded my patch as returning -ENODEV if there was no dev->open. However I have to accept that just before a 2.4 release is not the best time to have a flag day. Put it down for 2.5.
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