From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270035AbUJHPnj (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:43:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270033AbUJHPnj (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:43:39 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:42201 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270035AbUJHPio (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:38:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4166B475.3080707@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:38:29 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , Mark Lord , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 References: <4161A06D.8010601@rtr.ca> <416547B6.5080505@rtr.ca> <20041007150709.B12688@infradead.org> <4165624C.5060405@rtr.ca> <416565DB.4050006@pobox.com> <4165A45D.2090200@rtr.ca> <4165A766.1040104@pobox.com> <4165A85D.7080704@rtr.ca> <4165AB1B.8000204@pobox.com> <4165ACF8.8060208@rtr.ca> <20041007221537.A17712@infradead.org> <1097241583.2412.15.camel@mulgrave> <4166AF2F.6070904@rtr.ca> <1097249266.1678.40.camel@mulgrave> <4166B37D.8030701@rtr.ca> In-Reply-To: <4166B37D.8030701@rtr.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > And the driver will need it's own copy in some versions anyway, > since this driver will be used on much older/earlier kernels > than just the ones with the latest libata stuff. Typically that's done with an out-of-tree compatibility module, such as something like kcompat (http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/), which provides a modern driver API to older kernels. Jeff