[Prism54-devel] Re: fix for islpci_dev.h
Luis R. Rodriguez
mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:45:50 -0500 (EST)
I had put the new 2.6 work queue API calls a few days ago, not sure if you
noticed. 2.4 uses the old calls until it integrates the new API. At that
point i'll let the newer 2.4 kernsl make use of it.
Luis
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> Well I'll throw in my one cent worth.
> It really isn't a pain to include these lines as we can protect them with
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,4,23)
>
> Total cost 4 lines.
> One of the problems with 2.4 vanilla kernels is the lack of integrated packages
> (Alsa and sensors, just to name 2). So in fact I tend to go with the
> distro's kernels
> as a base. A Linux newbie will certainly be put off by the statement that
> he has
> to gen a vaniila kernel. (And then he wonders why other things stop working)
> With actual distro's, the 2/4 line patch and the tarball, all we have to do
> is run the
> make as documented and we are up and running (hopefully).
> Vote : Put the 4 lines in and document the minimum distro kernel that that
> is required.
> (For Suse 2.4.21-99, default with 9.0)
>
> Margit
>
>
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