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Message-ID: <20071027071706.0ce9cb9f@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:17:06 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@...ptec.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi driver trivial
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:46:15 -0600
ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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.
>
> I thought the argument was not that drivers are back ported but that
> internal kernel APIs changes aren't backported.
exactly
> So that testing
> the kernel version actually has a chance as a reasonable test for
> features.
or at least for this level of API change
For this specific change, I don't see ANY distro just backporting
this ... so a version test is just fine for this change imo.
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