Re: Porting kref to a 2.4 kernel (2.4.20 or greater)

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jun 15 2005 - 17:16:53 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:20:04AM -0700, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What stumbling blocks do you think I would encounter if I wanted to port
> kref to a 2.4.xx kernel? Is kref tightly coupled with the kernel object
> infrastructure found in the 2.6.xx kernel?

Have you looked at the kref code to see if there is any such coupling?
Can you describe any problems you are having doing the uncoupling?

What do you want this in the 2.4 kernel for? You know that no new
features are being accepted for that tree, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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