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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: James Clark <jimwclark@ntlworld.com>,
	Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver Model 2 Proposal - Linux Kernel Performance v Usability
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:50:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F5F8E90.4020701@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.53.0309041723090.9557@chaos

I just have one quick question about all of this:

People mention that driver interfaces don't change much in stable 
releases, but if memory serves, symbol versioning information changes 
with each minor release, requiring a recompile of modules.

Would it be possible to have a driver module which can be dropped into, 
say, 2.6.17 that can also be dropped into 2.6.18 as long as the 
interface doesn't change?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1062637356.846.3471.camel@cube>
2003-09-04 20:14 ` Driver Model 2 Proposal - Linux Kernel Performance v Usability James Clark
2003-09-04 20:27   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 21:16     ` James Clark
2003-09-04 21:50       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 22:10       ` insecure
2003-09-04 22:01     ` jdow
2003-09-04 20:29   ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-04 21:12     ` James Clark
2003-09-04 21:40       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-04 21:41       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-04 22:19       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 21:29   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-04 21:51     ` James Clark
2003-09-04 22:06       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-04 22:10       ` Martin Mares
2003-09-04 22:23       ` Gustav Petersson
2003-09-05 17:52       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-05 18:31         ` James Clark
2003-09-05 18:59           ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-05 19:12           ` Dale P. Smith
2003-09-05 19:45             ` Stan Bubrouski
2003-09-05 19:59           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-05 20:01             ` James Clark
2003-09-05 20:08           ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-05 21:15           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-05 23:19             ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-09-10 20:50     ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-09-10 20:48       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-10 23:22         ` James Clark
2003-09-10 23:58           ` Greg KH
2003-09-12 20:51         ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-12 20:55           ` Tim Hockin
2003-09-15 11:39           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-05 20:53 Chad Kitching
2003-09-05 23:30 ` Mike Fedyk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-04 22:41 Chad Kitching
2003-09-03 17:53 James Clark
2003-09-03 17:49 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:23   ` Guillaume Morin
2003-09-04  4:10     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:35   ` Guillaume Morin
2003-09-03 19:30     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-03 18:18 ` Greg KH
2003-09-03 18:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-09-03 18:49 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-09-03 18:58 ` Gábor Lénárt
2003-09-03 20:18 ` Christoph Hellwig

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