Re: PATCH 2.3.23 pre 2 compile fixes

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:12:25 -0400

Donald Becker wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > This has done to all of the PCI drivers. See
> > > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html
> > > ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/*
> >
> > These use the new pci scan code when Linus picked Jeff Garzik's stuff instead

> And it doesn't help the cross-version compatibility, which no one except
> users seems to care about.

The PCI probe interface can drop into older kernels without
modification. Implementation may change a bit, but that's not visible
to code which uses the PCI probe interface.

Jeff

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