david parsons wrote:
>
> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.1000317022843.21871C-100000@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoftmandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com>,
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>
> >It does not mean that at all. Look at current acenic or rrunner
> >drivers for example. It is ENTIRELY possible to create a 2.3 driver
> >which is fully backwards compatible with 2.0 and 2.2.
>
> You provoked my curiousity and I tried to build the acenic driver
> from 2.3.51 on 2.0.28+logo. ``fully backwards compatable'' is not
> really the phrase that came to mind when the 10,000 error messages
> went scrolling on by.
<grin>
I should have explained more. It is possible to use the _approach_ of
acenic/rruner to achieve compatibility with older kernels.
If Jes really had support for 2.0.x in his driver I would be most
impressed.
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