netdev - Re: A generic kernel compatibilty code

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Message-ID: <43e72e890911201307g2a1f280aie223ed4fd270aad@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:07:36 -0800
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A generic kernel compatibilty code

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Ben Hutchings
<bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 12:45 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Everyone and their mother reinvents the wheel when it comes to
>> backporting kernel modules. It a painful job and it seems to me an
>> alternative is possible. If we can write generic compatibilty code for
>> a new routine introduced on the next kernel how about just merging it
>> to the kernel under some generic compat module. This would be
>> completey ignored by everyone using the stable kernel but can be
>> copied by anyone doing backport work.
>>
>> So I'm thinking something as simple as a generic compat/comat.ko with
>> compat-2.6.32.[ch] files.
>>
>> We've already backported everything needed for wireless drivers under
>> compat-wireless under this format down to even 2.6.25.
> [...]
>
> If you think 2.6.25 is old then I don't think you understand the scale
> of the problem.
>
> OEMs still expect us to support RHEL 4 (2.6.9) and SLES 9 (2.6.5) though
> the latter will probably be dropped soon.  Some other vendors apparently
> still need to support even 2.4 kernels!

Heh understood. Well shouldn't this help with that then? Sure I'd love
to see the Enteprise Linux releases on 2.6.31 but that's not going to
happen right? Shouldn't this help then?

  Luis
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