On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Paul Burkacki wrote:
> Howdy,
Hi,
> a question from someone who is just entering Linux
> newbiehood... ;O)
>
> I am in the process of porting a char driver from
> kernel version 2.0.x to version 2.2.12. While building
> the driver against the new kernel, gcc tells me that
> "struct no longer has a member timeout" (this is struct
> current).
>
> I believe I found a code sample that shows how to deal
> with this build error however, I am wondering, where one
> would look for any kind of information that documents
> what happend to struct current between versions 2.0.x and
> 2.2.x?
>
> Also, I am wondering if there is a document that talks
> about how file_operations' select has been replaced by a
> poll.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
Richard Gooch have a good page at
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/porting-to-2.2.html, I think
you can find the information that you want.
-augusto
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