The hardware vendors' panel

Posted Jul 20, 2005 20:46 UTC (Wed) by oak (guest, #2786)
Parent article: Kernel Summit 2005: The hardware vendors' panel

Why the multiple kernel version driver support cannot work like the kernel
does?

Instead of having backwards compatibility in newer drivers, add forwards
portability to the drivers for old kernels... (I quite liked that idea
when I first heard it :))