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Message-ID: <4722E360.7000305@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:06:08 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> CC: 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 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:37:47 -0400 > Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote: > >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>> the other serious question is.. how is IRQ_HANDLER_V3 different >>> from a #ifdef VERSION >= 2.6.24 ..... >>> it's not really ;) >> Note my mention of backport -- kernel version isn't relevant when the >> various enterprise distros have random featuresets under random >> 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. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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