Re: Compiling a 2.4 driver under 2.6

From: Josh Boyer (jdub_at_us.ibm.com)
Date: 09/30/04

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    To: Brian McGrew <Brian@doubledimension.com>
    Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:08:18 -0500
    
    

    On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 15:31, Brian McGrew wrote:
    > Hello all:
    >
    > We've got a device driver that we currently use under the 2.4.20 kernel and it works. I'm trying to get the same driver compiled up under the 2.6.8 (Fedora Core 2) kernel and getting a lot of errors. I'm no expert software engineer or kernel guy, so any help would be great. I've included the error output as well as the drive source.
    >

    This might help to start with:

    http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/

    josh

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