* how do I port from 2.6.32 kernel to 3.11. kernel @ 2014-08-07 15:15 Omkar Houddin 2014-08-07 15:30 ` Saket Sinha 2014-08-07 16:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Omkar Houddin @ 2014-08-07 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies Hello Guys, Can you please suggest me how to port a pci driver which is now on 2.6.32 kernel to 3.11.4 kernel. Regards, OH -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140807/7073d2ca/attachment-0001.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* how do I port from 2.6.32 kernel to 3.11. kernel 2014-08-07 15:15 how do I port from 2.6.32 kernel to 3.11. kernel Omkar Houddin @ 2014-08-07 15:30 ` Saket Sinha 2014-08-07 15:35 ` Omkar Houddin 2014-08-07 16:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu 1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Saket Sinha @ 2014-08-07 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies Do it version by version to catch any breakage in functionality and would also enable to debug any isssues. Do not directly try to port it to 3.11 Regards, Saket Sinha On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Omkar Houddin <ophouddin22@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Guys, > > Can you please suggest me how to port a pci driver which is now on 2.6.32 > kernel to 3.11.4 kernel. > > Regards, > OH > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140807/f081bd63/attachment.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* how do I port from 2.6.32 kernel to 3.11. kernel 2014-08-07 15:30 ` Saket Sinha @ 2014-08-07 15:35 ` Omkar Houddin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Omkar Houddin @ 2014-08-07 15:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies Thank you for the information. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Saket Sinha <saket.sinha89@gmail.com> wrote: > Do it version by version to catch any breakage in functionality and would > also enable to debug any isssues. Do not directly try to port it to 3.11 > > Regards, > Saket Sinha > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Omkar Houddin <ophouddin22@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello Guys, >> >> Can you please suggest me how to port a pci driver which is now on 2.6.32 >> kernel to 3.11.4 kernel. >> >> Regards, >> OH >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140807/9d66c1e2/attachment.html ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* how do I port from 2.6.32 kernel to 3.11. kernel 2014-08-07 15:15 how do I port from 2.6.32 kernel to 3.11. kernel Omkar Houddin 2014-08-07 15:30 ` Saket Sinha @ 2014-08-07 16:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu @ 2014-08-07 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:15:33 -0700, Omkar Houddin said: > Can you please suggest me how to port a pci driver which is now on 2.6.32 > kernel to 3.11.4 kernel. In general, we're very careful to make sure that if we change an API, that the new version has a different signature (new name, or different number of arguments, so on), so you'll get a compile error if you try to build under a newer kernel. Of course, if that involves a change in locking or something, it may require some heavy lifting to fix your stuff. But at least identifying what needs fixing is actually easy. So if you just compile it, and look at the errors, and for each error track down what changed, and make the relevant correction to your code, you should be good. Oh, and then submit the driver to mainline, so somebody *else* does that work for you - whenever somebody changes an API, it's their job to go through the entire tree and fix it everyplace. One less thing for you to do. :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 848 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140807/ba2fa1dc/attachment.bin ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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