Re: PNP patch into kernel when?
Andrew E. Mileski (aem@nic.ott.hookup.net)
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:18:09 -0500 (EST)
> > Yes, but it will cause needless heartache to people who try to maintain
> > compatibility with more than one version of the kernel (as is the case for
> > quite a lot of 3rd-party drivers). You'll end up with every driver having
> > something like
> [snip]
>
> there is stuff like this in many drivers already ...
>
> > and you will upset people who want modules to be binary compatible.
>
> binary modules are expected to break from one development kernel
> to the next. People who want to be binary compatible should use
> stable kernels :-)
One thing that crossed my mind...hasn't module compatibility _already_
been broken because of the v2.1.* changes? (I don't know, so I'm asking.)
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Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@ott.hookup.net
Linux Plug-and-Play Kernel Project http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/
XFree86 Matrox Team http://www.bf.rmit.edu.au/~ajv/xf86-matrox.html