Am Freitag, den 20.02.2009, 10:49 +0100 schrieb Jean Delvare: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:53:16 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > On Friday 20 February 2009 04:57:11 hermann pitton wrote: > > > 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 :-) > > That's better than before, but just because it builds doesn't mean it > works... > Given the restricted testing (!) capabilities in both directions, I don't even know how many and different devices we support currently and that it works is not always guaranteed on a released kernel either :) Does Linus know it better ;) Cheers, Hermann -- 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
