Commit e85a5046 authored by Alessandro Rubini's avatar Alessandro Rubini

doc: update about portability related to the new eeprom file

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini's avatarAlessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
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......@@ -1724,10 +1724,14 @@ This package should be portable. However I didn't test it on a wide
variety of system. I used it on a 32-bit x86 host, running version 2.6.32
and 3.4 of the kernel.
I verified that it compiles without any warning from version 2.6.27 up
to 3.5, on a 32-bit x86 processor. On 2.6.26 it fails for changes in
I verified that it compiles without any warning from version 2.6.35 up
to 3.5, on a 32-bit x86 processor. From 2.6.27 to 2.6.34 the only warning
is about the @t{eeprom} read-only file in @i{sysfs}. Please don't access
that file when running 2.6.34 or earlier.
On 2.6.26 it fails for changes in
the Linux device structures. On 2.6.25 and earlier it fails much more
badly.
badly. We still support 2.6.24 with a separate @i{backport} branch.
@bye
@c LocalWords: gnudd titlepage iftex texinfo CERN documentlanguage settitle
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