[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>  Not necessarily - it all depends on what your driver does.  In many
> cases, supporting 2.2 and 2.4 is easy, and all you need are a few
> #if's.  It's certainly much better to have a dozen or so #if's
> sprinkled throughout the code than to have two separate source trees,
> and have to make the same change to multiple files.

It's even better to do it without the ugly preprocessor magic - see 
include/linux/compatmac.h

There are a few things missing from there - include/linux/mtd/compatmac.h 
has more. One day we'll get round to removing the latter and merging it 
into the main one, hopefully. 

--
dwmw2


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