Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:44:32 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.51 tulip broken |
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david parsons wrote: > > In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.1000317022843.21871C-100000@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>, > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> wrote: > > >It does not mean that at all. Look at current acenic or rrunner > >drivers for example. It is ENTIRELY possible to create a 2.3 driver > >which is fully backwards compatible with 2.0 and 2.2. > > You provoked my curiousity and I tried to build the acenic driver > from 2.3.51 on 2.0.28+logo. ``fully backwards compatable'' is not > really the phrase that came to mind when the 10,000 error messages > went scrolling on by.
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I should have explained more. It is possible to use the _approach_ of acenic/rruner to achieve compatibility with older kernels.
If Jes really had support for 2.0.x in his driver I would be most impressed.
-- Jeff Garzik | My to-do list is a function Building 1024 | which approaches infinity. MandrakeSoft, Inc. |
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