Making a module 2.4 compatible
Quoted 6 lines · James Lamanna
I have a kernel module for a robot that was developed for the 2.0 and 2.2 kernels and does not work under 2.4. Unfortunately, the company that made it is not in business anymore. It would be nice to have it working under 2.4, so is there someplace that outlines some of the major things that would have changed so I can update the module accordingly?
Seconded! There are a few users of iBCS around here, who _need_ the functionality and don't get it with 2.4.x (in this case, Red Hat 7.1). Or is there a replacement for it?
Thanks!
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Horst von Brand [email protected] Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
Hi Horst,
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Seconded! There are a few users of iBCS around here, who _need_ the functionality and don't get it with 2.4.x (in this case, Red Hat 7.1). Or is there a replacement for it?
Take a look at inux-abi:
http://linux-abi.sourceforge.net
ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi
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From: "Christoph Hellwig" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Making a module 2.4 compatible
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Hi Horst,
Quoted 2 lines · In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
Seconded! There are a few users of iBCS around here, who _need_ the functionality and don't get it with 2.4.x (in this case, Red Hat 7.1).
Or
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is there a replacement for it?
Take a look at inux-abi:
http://linux-abi.sourceforge.net
ftp://ftp.openlinux.org/pub/people/hch/linux-abi
I've tried linux-abi myself. No luck at all. Best I can tell it has
yet to reach the level of compatibility that iBCS has. Although last version I tried was the 2.4.3 patch on the linux abi web site. I noticed a newer one on the openlinux ftp site, might give that one a try too though considering what happened with the one I previously tried I am nowhere near optimistic. Unfortunately this has burned me since I need to setup a new system that uses the new features of the 2.4.x kernels (latest rieserfs, better smp, support for the latest ide chipsets, better scaling) which also can run SCO binaries. I am actually at the point where I am strongly considering trying to port iBCS myself though not sure about it yet mainly due to concerns that I may not implement it correctly to work with some of the latest kernel changes without understanding how the original iBCS was designed.
By the way is there a reason there isn't a patch to support the latest
available for the 2.2.x kernels? Is it incompatible with the 2.2.x kernels? I recently needed to downgrade the kernel on a machine due to 2.4.x instability but was unable to due to the lack of a patch to support the latest rieserfs on 2.2.x.