Re: [zd1211-devs] ZD1211

[Dan S. <dds...@ie...>]

Hi all,

I have to agree this is much better than #ifdefs.  when this is eventually 
merged into the mainstream kernel, this design will be much easier to 
merge than an #ifdef'ed design.


On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Markus Karg wrote:

>Dmitriy,
>
>Since Kernels 2.4 and 2.6 have quite different interfaces we need to fulfil, 
>Arno and I want to remove the Kernel-specifics from the rest of the code:
>
>API-LAYER 2.4 (= Implementation of  API 2.4) will be one file.
>API-LAYER 2.6 (= Implementation of API 2.6) will be another file.
>SPI-LAYER (= ZyDAS-spceifics) will be the rest.
>
>Do you see any problems here? Arno only knows 2.6, but you are 2.4 specialist. 
>As we have seen, your contribution separates both Kernels by a lot of 
>#ifdefs, what makes the code complex to read.
>
>The benefits will be:
>
>- Better to read
>- Better to maintain
>- MAKEFILE can decide what API-Layer to fulfil (instead of each file including 
>a lot of #ifdef)
>
>Markus
>
>
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