On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 11:19:39 Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > soc-camera drivers so far only include embedded platforms, and there you > > most usually have to work with complete kernel sources, and, to be > > honest, this backwards compatibility patching only adds work for me - > > when trying to merge patches created with git against a complete kernel > > git tree, because often so created patches don't apply cleanly (or at > > all) because of the compatibility delta. And then this delta has to be > > cleaned up by Mauro again before pushing upstream. Yes, Mauro does use > > scripts for this, still, separating original patches from the > > compatibility code can be non-trivial, I think, and, I guess, those > > scripts do not manage it in 100% of cases - as we have seen with a recent > > breakage exactly with these PXA register definitions. > > > > So, I would be perfectly happy if we find a way to only allow compilation > > of soc-camera drivers against the "current" kernel, and remove all the > > compatibility code from them. > > No problem, I've modified it so that the daily build only compiles this > driver from 2.6.29 and up. Great, thanks. Can we also set this for other soc-camera drivers and remove all backwards compatibility patches from them? I.e. keep them exactly like upstream? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
