Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2015, 12:35 +0100 schrieb Russell King - ARM Linux: > 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. > That's fine with me. Regards, Lucas -- Pengutronix e.K. | Lucas Stach | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
