Best way to support multiple kernels

From: Gerhard W. Gruber (sparhawk_at_gmx.at)
Date: 11/18/03 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:09:44 +0100

Since I'm maintinaing a kerneldebugger I was wondering on what would be the
best way to maintain compatibillity for different kernel versions.

Currently I have 2.4.18 and 2.4.22 installed and on another machine 2.2.16, so
these I can easily try. Of course I don't want to test on every kernel out
there, so I wonder what would be the best approach to decide which kernels to
try.

Of course I don't want to test on all kernels, but I want to have the sources
at least to be compiling without any errors. I know that this doesn't ensure
that the program will also run properly, but if somebody still has such a
kernel he can always tell me about the problems.

I decided to support of course the kernels that I have in use myself, from the
2.2. series the last one but which would be a good choice for supporting from
2.4?
Are there still people actively developing for 2.2 series or would it be
easier to drop support for this until somebody complains? 

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Gerhard Gruber
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