Re: Ok, making ready for pre-2.4 and code-freeze..

Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:58:17 -0500 (EST)


> What kind of work is this? If it's pretty simple stuff, just repetitive,
> I may be able to help out. Got an example of before/after? Or at least let me

It is fairly repetative

> know of a driver that has been 'properly' updated so I have something to work
> from? I'll try and look at some of the code, I'm pretty good at C, but not too
> terribly familiar w/ kernel internals (yet. :) ).

Have a look at the changes in aic7xxx between 2.3.29 and 2.3.32. Most of the
driver specific foo_setup() functions are now intended to be called
by having an __setup() macro which calls them at kernel boot time.

Alan

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