Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The lesson to learn here is obviously not to ship binaries of applications > to customers before the driver has been merged in a mainline kernel. Believe me, I know this, but unfortunately I have no control over every aspect of our development cycle. > The best way out that I can see is to make the driver carry the proper > interface in the upstream version, but to have a private patch to support > both interface versions in the kernel you ship on machines that require > backwards compatibility. Once you have phased out the user application, > you can then drop that patch and use the upstream version of the > interfaces. I think I can make that work. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
