Re: [gentoo-user] undetected DVD r/w device

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 11 September 2010 22:57:12 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2010 21:15:12 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:24 on Saturday 11 September 2010,
> > 
> > Peter Humphrey did opine thus:
> > > On Saturday 11 September 2010 18:50:04 Mick wrote:
> > > > Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon
> > > 
> > > I hope it won't. I have one box whose drives the new drivers cannot
> > > detect - at least, nothing I've tried has worked so far.
> > 
> > That's the beauty of Linux. When Linus decides he's had enough
> > keeping old stuff hanging around and rips it out, you just put it
> > right back in your own copies.
> 
> Hmm. Not sure how I'd do that. I'd just assumed that I'd stick with a
> kernel version that worked. You know: mask anything later than version
> 99.94. And yes, I do remember that version, but in the 1.n.n series.

Is it possible to create one's own patch for drivers from old kernel(s) and 
use that to patch later versions?!  O_O
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Regards,
Mick

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