Re: poor change in ncr53c8xx/linux-2.1.104

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Mon, 8 Jun 1998 21:25:35 +0200 (MET DST)

"A month of sundays ago Gerard Roudier wrote:"
>
>
> On the other hand, it seems that the mdelay() function is not defined in
> 2.0 kernels. Given the time needed to have a new stable kernel, drivers

Good point.

> have to be often updated in stable and so must be source compatible with
> stable kernels.

Put #ifndef HAVE_MDELAY #define mdelay(x) something #endif in the driver
code, and put #define HAVE_MDELAY in the new 2.1.* header where mdelay is
prototyped?

It seems we are going towards autoconfig ...

> Gerard.

Peter ptb@it.uc3m.es

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