[Prism54-devel] Re: Prism54 in 2.6.4-bk2

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:28:17PM +0100, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> Luis,
> Just my opinion - I think you should take 2.6.4-bk2 version and
> use it for the base version. Jeff has taken out the WDS stuff and
> the wireless version ifdefs. When done, any further patches
> can be autogenned and sent to Jeff.

Cool :)

> Other people may patch the kernel driver. One of the current examples
> (which the prism driver just missed) is a global change in a lot of
> drivers (wireless included) changing dev->priv to netdev_priv(dev).
> (See current changeset for 2.6.4)

Will do!

> It may well get to the stage where it is impossible to maintain a common
> code for 2.4 and 2.6.

Eh good. It'll force cleaner code. More work, but cleaner code.
Anyone against separating the current module into 2.4 and 2.6? I think
it's an inevitable step.

> Oh and the kernel version is missing the last couple of changes
> (moduleparam and skb)

Yes I saw that :(

Like I said in my last e-mail to kernel mailing list... oh well. Someone
jumped the gun.

> Margit

Thanks for the reply.

	Luis

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