Re: load 2.4.x binary only module on 2.6

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 06 November 2003 11:06, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:58:15 GMT, 
viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:30:04PM +0100, Marcel Lanz wrote:
>> > I have a binary only module for 2.4.x.
>> > How much work is it to write a kind of wrapper to load an "old"
>> > module on 2.6 ?
>>
>> Unfeasible.
>
>http://www.minion.de for a counter-example.  Of course, the NVidia
>driver was already built with a wrapper for the 2.4 kernel, so doing
> a 2.6 version wasn't too bad.
>
It may be there, and I may have a copy of it, but it won't install if 
I'm running 2.6.0-test9-mm2.

>It's really going to depend on which kernel interfaces the module
> actually uses, and what the module is doing.

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