>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <chhellwig@gmx.net> writes:
Christoph> On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:13:36PM +0200, Jes Sorensen
Christoph> wrote:
>> Some of us are trying to maintain drivers that are being used both
>> in 2.2.x and 2.3.x - having the compatibillity code stripped out
>> regularly from someone making a quick hack in the 2.3.x tree is a
>> major pain.
Christoph> But drivers should be backward-compatible, not
Christoph> forward-compatible. You should emulate newer interfaces on
Christoph> older kernel, not older interfaces on newer kernels.
Agreed, I was reacting to the comment about 2.2 compatibility should
be stripped from the 2.3 maestro driver.
Jes
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