Re: [PATCH] Several compat additions

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On Sat, May 13, 2006, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> On Saturday 13 May 2006 00:27, Trent Piepho wrote:
> > Here are patches for four different kernel compat issues, plus a patch to
> > update versions.txt.
> >
> > Most were straight forward.  The change for the usb_input.h was not so
> > obvious, I tried to come up something that had the least impact on the
> > drivers.
> >
> > Some drivers don't have compat code for changes made to struct i2c_driver
> > in 2.6.16.  They will still compile and insert, but leave important fields
> > uninitialized, which can lock the kernel.  I didn't make them work with
> > older kernels, but did adjust versions.txt to be correct.
> 
> All these look good to me - if no one else complains I'll apply 'em.
> 
> Does anyone have any objections to Trent's other mutex/sempahore  compat patch 
> at:
> http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-April/009510.html
> 
> If not, I'll apply that too....

Please wait for Mauro to ACK, they touch a lot of v4l
code, and I'm not sure if Mauro's scripts handle the
removal of the new compat stuff when creating patches
for sending to Linus.

Johannes

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