Re: RFCv1: v4l-dvb development models & old kernel support

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On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, wk wrote:
> Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > Comments?
> >
> > 	Hans
> >
>
> As only beeing reader of this list.., why not simply reduce the work load by
>
> - reducing the number of supported kernel versions to five major
> versions? Currently 2.6.28 would mean down to 2.6.23,
> this would be enough cover all nearly up-to-date distributions. Users
> from embedded devices are anyway mostly not able to compile or use newer
> drivers.

Supporting versions between 2.6.23 and 2.6.28 isn't much more work than
supporting just 2.6.23 and 2.6.28.  There aren't many compat issues that
appeared in say 2.6.25 and disappeared in 2.6.27 that could be ignored.
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