On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 02:57, Christoph Torens wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:10:47 +0100, Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi Lothar, > > > > Early in September you were working on a driver for the isp1362 based > > upon your work with the ohci-emu/sl811 stuff. I'm just wondering what > > the current status of this is. Do you have a webpage with patches or > > anything like that? > > > > I have a PXA255 platform with an ISP1161 on it and am interested in > > helping out testing, debugging etc. > > May I ask what a driver for isp1362 has to do with a isp116x chip? > But I would need a 2.6 kernel to use it, right? > They are similar. The diffs between the 2 chips can be hidden inside #ifdef statements. But yes, you would need a 2.6 kernel to use it.
> And, thats a bit off topic and a silly newbie question, but > why has something like, for example a hc_isp116x driver to be > ported to 2.6 ? Of course, kernel is changing, code restructed, > things like that, ok. But is the change so huge? > Well, the answer is propably a simple: yes > (Sorry for this question) > The question is: is there a universal driver for the chip? something that really works for everyone? And if it's time to create such a driver, why would you bother do it for an old kernel and not the new one. I mean, the new USB API is very promising and we should take advantage of it. But to asnwer your question, if there was a fully-working driver, the porting to 2.6 would be rather simple. There exists a level of backward compatibility between 2.4 and 2.6 Dimitris
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