Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:37:47 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:Arjan van de Ven wrote:Note my mention of backport -- kernel version isn't relevant when the various enterprise distros have random featuresets under randomthe other serious question is.. how is IRQ_HANDLER_V3 different from a #ifdef VERSION >= 2.6.24 ..... it's not really ;)kernel versions.yeah and THEY can put the defines in (RH used to do this fwiw as a generic "this is a RH kernel" define).... but afaik no distro vendor backports such an api change nowadays... and hasn't in 2.6 ever
People backport drivers all the time that must support a wide range of kernels.
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