Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !! | Date | Fri, 01 Dec 2000 09:26:29 +0000 |
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ttabi@interactivesi.com said: > Not necessarily - it all depends on what your driver does. In many > cases, supporting 2.2 and 2.4 is easy, and all you need are a few > #if's. It's certainly much better to have a dozen or so #if's > sprinkled throughout the code than to have two separate source trees, > and have to make the same change to multiple files.
It's even better to do it without the ugly preprocessor magic - see include/linux/compatmac.h
There are a few things missing from there - include/linux/mtd/compatmac.h has more. One day we'll get round to removing the latter and merging it into the main one, hopefully.
-- dwmw2
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