On Friday 20 February 2009 04:57:11 hermann pitton wrote: > Hi, > <cut> > --- > > I don't want to come up with old stories about what happened in the > past, there are some. > > It looks like Jean tries to find a good compromise. > > So, I don't deny, that recent Fedora stuff is not as stable as it was > for long and on certain hardware, at least, a pain. You are forced to > use something you don't want, giving the test monkey. > > We, from our side, should try best, that it does not slip further > away ... > > Hans decided deliberately to extend backward compat even down to 2.6.16, > now seeing the bill. I didn't extend it, instead I reduced the backward compat to 2.6.16 at the time. It supported older kernels as well back then, however since nobody ever compiled for those older kernels quite a few drivers were broken. Creating the daily build system at least ensures that we know v4l-dvb can compile for those kernels we support officially. In the past this was more based on hope and a prayer :-) > We had back then already requests to prepare compat down to v4l2 > revision one, if someone remembers and I did strongly deny such > assaults. Our head developers were set on wrong paths and wasted there > time. Result in best case was some binary only. > > So, if Hans wants to get out of this hell now, seems down to 2.6.22 he > would be willing to help to care for, the rest is as it was. > > Mauro, Trent, Mike and hopefully some more for the rest or let it. > > Cheers, > Hermann Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG -- 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
