Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:12:25 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.3.23 pre 2 compile fixes |
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Donald Becker wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > This has done to all of the PCI drivers. See > > > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html > > > ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/* > > > > These use the new pci scan code when Linus picked Jeff Garzik's stuff instead
> And it doesn't help the cross-version compatibility, which no one except > users seems to care about.
The PCI probe interface can drop into older kernels without modification. Implementation may change a bit, but that's not visible to code which uses the PCI probe interface.
Jeff
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