On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:18:48PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:57:15PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote: > > There is no point in keeping backwards compatibility to older > > kernel versions in a driver destined to mainline. > > You are correct, however the repository I keep is always based on the > previous non-rc kernel release, and I want it to work not only with > that release, but also the future -rc's as well. It means that from > time to time, I will include compatibility across a merge window, but > I do intend to drop it. I'm not sure what version you've generated this patch against, but I can't apply it without significant changes to your patch. I think instead, I'm going to create a patch removing the v4.1 code from my commit myself, and merge it into my original commit as the 4.1 code is no longer relevant. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
