Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/04] Freescale Ethernet combined driver

From: Pantelis Antoniou <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 13:56:09 +0300

Ricardo Scop wrote:
> Hi Pantelis,
> 
> On Monday 09 May 2005 08:44, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>The following patch is a combined FCC/FEC ethernet driver
>>for the Freescale line of PowerQUICCs.
>>
>>FECs on 8xx and FCCs on 82xx are supported.
>>
>>This part of the patch contains the core driver.
>>
> 
> and, inside the patch:
> 
> +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0)
> 
> Does this mean that the code is designed to be backwards compatible to 2.4.x 
> kernel code? If so, I could give it a try and, maybe, even make sure that it 
> keeps such compatibility.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
Yes the code support 2.4 also.

You need a diffent way to fill in the platform data though...

Regards

Pantelis