Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:53:51 -0800 | Subject | Re: A generic kernel compatibilty code |
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote: >> Everyone and their mother reinvents the wheel when it comes to >> backporting kernel modules. It a painful job and it seems to me an >> alternative is possible. If we can write generic compatibilty code for >> a new routine introduced on the next kernel how about just merging it >> to the kernel under some generic compat module. This would be >> completey ignored by everyone using the stable kernel but can be >> copied by anyone doing backport work. >> >> So I'm thinking something as simple as a generic compat/comat.ko with >> compat-2.6.32.[ch] files. > > FWIW, I meant a compat-2.6.32.[ch] and compat-2.6.31.[ch] and so on. > All these would link to the compat.ko
I supose this could juse be a separate tree with some generic compat.ko module. That might work better.
Luis
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