Re: [PATCH] gdth update

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 06:45:56 EST


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 13:12, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> * IO-mapping with virt_to_bus(), gdth_readb(), gdth_writeb(), ...
> - * register_reboot_notifier() to get a notify on shutdown used
> + * register_reboot_notifier() to get a notify on shutown used

why this change ?

> +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,0)
> +static irqreturn_t gdth_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs);
> #else
> -static void gdth_interrupt(int irq,struct pt_regs *regs);
> +static void gdth_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs);
> #endif

this really is the wrong way to do such irq prototype compatibility in
drivers. *really*


> +static struct file_operations gdth_fops = {
> +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,0)
> + .ioctl = gdth_ioctl,
> + .open = gdth_open,
> + .release = gdth_close,
> +#else
> + ioctl:gdth_ioctl,
> + open:gdth_open,
> + release:gdth_close,
> +#endif

C99 initializers work in all kernel versions since it's a property of
the C compiler not of the kernel. I wonder why you are putting this
ifdef here....

the rest of your ifdefs are generally quite fishy too unfortionately...

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