From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263599AbTDIQsL (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:48:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263611AbTDIQsK (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:48:10 -0400 Received: from 237.oncolt.com ([213.86.99.237]:16874 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263599AbTDIQsJ (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:48:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] compatmac is not needed From: David Woodhouse To: Ingo Oeser Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk In-Reply-To: <20030409180327.K626@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <200304081725.h38HPeSV012611@hera.kernel.org> <1049877554.31462.24.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <20030409180327.K626@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1049907586.31462.228.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5.dwmw2) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:59:46 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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