From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi driver trivial
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:17:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071027071706.0ce9cb9f@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1lk9proe0.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:46:15 -0600
ebiederm@xmission.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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-27 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 7:54 [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:55 ` [PATCH 1/9] irq-remove: core Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 17:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 19:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 23:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 23:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 23:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:55 ` [PATCH 2/9] irq-remove: arch non-trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 16:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-19 17:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 17:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 17:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 7:56 ` [PATCH 3/9] irq-remove: arch trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:56 ` [PATCH 4/9] irq-remove: driver non-trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:57 ` [PATCH 5/9] irq-remove: net driver trivial Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:57 ` [PATCH 6/9] irq-remove: sound " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:58 ` [PATCH 7/9] irq-remove: scsi " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 13:00 ` Salyzyn, Mark
2007-10-26 21:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-26 21:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-26 23:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27 0:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-27 0:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27 0:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-27 5:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27 7:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-27 7:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-27 14:17 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2007-10-19 7:58 ` [PATCH 8/9] irq-remove: " Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 7:59 ` [PATCH 9/9] irq-remove: misc fixes and cleanups Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 14:53 ` [PATCH 0/9] Remove 'irq' argument from all irq handlers Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-19 18:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 18:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 19:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-19 19:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-19 19:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-19 19:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-19 18:45 ` Mark Gross
2007-10-20 6:07 ` Greg KH
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