Re: Does anybody try to compile the 2.3 kernels at all ? :((

From: Sergey Kubushin (ksi@ksi-linux.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 14:14:45 EST


On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > I can't understand that nobody has noticed that wanpipe does not build in
> > > several _RELEASED_ kernels in a row because somebody has removed enable_IPX
> > > and network_number that are spread all over the wan drivers code from
> > > include/linux/wanrouter.h...
> >
> > Hmm. Perhaps working wanrouter stuff is also distributed separately ?
>
> I know the wanrouter stuff is broken. I don't care. Someone who cares about it
> and has cards and uses it for IPX can fix it.

Have somebody gained something removing two members from two structures?
It's only 12 bytes per card. Did those members complicate life for somebody?
Is it worth all the pain somebody will have forcing the drivers that did
break to compile? Does some reason which justify such a change exist?

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