Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:36:41 -0600 (CST) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.51 tulip broken |
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Donald Becker wrote: > I'm in the increasingly untenable position of being expected to maintain > drivers for the current and older kernels, but not having any influence over > the new development exactly because of that backwards compatibility.
Then participate in discussions on linux-kernel! That's how open source works.
> There were many interface changes added incrementally in the 2.3 kernels. > Some with added without consideration of, or even in opposition to, > cross-version compatibility.
Please name ANY change which cannot be handled with some backwards compatibility macros or somesuch, when using a 2.3 driver on an older kernel.
> When I proposed an new PCI > detection interface I wrote a skeleton driver, converted several of my > drivers, demonstrated that it worked with several hardware classes and wrote > a usage guide.
...and then ignored all discussion and bugs regarding this interface.
Jeff
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