Asus N53 USB WiFi Driver porting

[nick]

On 2014-12-18 11:26 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:18:24PM +0530, Abhishek Sharma wrote:
>> Hi Valdis,
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> I do not want to change kernel.
> 
> "do not want to" is very different from "applications can not be ported
> to newer kernels".
> 
> Please realize that the Linux kernel developers have spent the last
> decade ensuring that you should be able to update to the latest kernel
> version with no problems or changes needed in your applications.  Lots
> of companies now realize this and have no problem updating to a newer
> kernel, while running their old applications.
> 
> So please don't spread misinformation about how applications will break
> with new kernel versions, that is almost always not a true statement.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
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Abhishek,
I am to agree with Greg KH here. The kernel community does a very good job of not breaking APIs for applications or 
regressions. Linus also has openly stated he will not accept any patches in the main line kernel tree if they break
user space so you should be fine. Further more to be honest I am very impressed with the amount of how little APIs
or regressions we get compared to the amount of commits. Abhishek, in addition this seems more like you don't know
or are afraid of compiling the kernel over anything else. If you want post lsmod output from your system so I can 
help teach you how to build the kernel correctly.
Nick