From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compatmac is not needed
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:59:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1049907586.31462.228.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030409180327.K626@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 17:03, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> So this is still a valid API? Good to know.
>
> What I don't know: Can it be product specific? So the net people
> ship a version for new networking APIs and filesystem people ship
> new filesystem methods along with their filesystem support.
>
> Reason I ask: There are many such frameworks floating around, but
> none was complete. Many miss BUG_ON(), likely()/unlikely(),
> seq_file support and many more interesting stuff.
Well, my copy of include/linux/mtd/compatmac.h includes just about
everything needed to get the CVS MTD code, which is meant for 2.5, to
build and work on 2.4.
There's definitely some scope for merging the various hacks if you're so
inclined.
--
dwmw2
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2003-04-09 8:39 ` David Woodhouse
2003-04-09 16:03 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-04-09 16:59 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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