Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: load 2.4.x binary only module on 2.6 | Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:43:19 -0500 |
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On Thursday 06 November 2003 11:06, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:58:15 GMT, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk said: >> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:30:04PM +0100, Marcel Lanz wrote: >> > I have a binary only module for 2.4.x. >> > How much work is it to write a kind of wrapper to load an "old" >> > module on 2.6 ? >> >> Unfeasible. > >http://www.minion.de for a counter-example. Of course, the NVidia >driver was already built with a wrapper for the 2.4 kernel, so doing > a 2.6 version wasn't too bad. > It may be there, and I may have a copy of it, but it won't install if I'm running 2.6.0-test9-mm2.
>It's really going to depend on which kernel interfaces the module > actually uses, and what the module is doing.
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