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SubjectRE: [PATCH 22/82] remove linux/version.h from drivers/message/fus ion
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On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 18:15 -0600, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> I'd rather you not kill linux_compat.h file.
> I use this file for compatibility of driver source
> across various kernel versions. I provide our
> customers with driver builds containing single source
> which needs to compile in kernels 2.6.5( e.g. SLES9),
> 2.6.8 (e.g. RHEL4), and 2.6.11 ( e.g. SuSE 9.3 Pro).

It is the general policy that the source in the latest linux kernel only
supports that kernel. You can certainly keep a compat header for your
customers, but what is in kernel.org should be clean for that version of
the kernel.

> If you look at our 3.02.18 driver source I submitted to SuSE
> for SLES9 SP2, you will see this file is about 3K bytes of
> compatibility.

Is the 3.02.18 code generally available now? Can it be cleaned up for
submission to 2.6.13?

-tduffy
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