Am Sonntag, den 22.02.2009, 11:15 +0100 schrieb Hans Verkuil: > Hi all, > > There are lot's of discussions, but it can be hard sometimes to actually > determine someone's opinion. > > So here is a quick poll, please reply either to the list or directly to me > with your yes/no answer and (optional but welcome) a short explanation to > your standpoint. It doesn't matter if you are a user or developer, I'd like > to see your opinion regardless. > > Please DO NOT reply to the replies, I'll summarize the results in a week's > time and then we can discuss it further. > > Should we drop support for kernels <2.6.22 in our v4l-dvb repository? > > _: Yes > _: No Yes. > Optional question: > > Why: Keeping too old kernels supported makes others lazy and in worst case they ask you to support v4l2 version one. (happened) Our user base for new devices is covered with down to 2.6.22 for now, we likely never got anything from those on old commercial distribution kernels, same for Debian and stuff derived from there. Since new drivers actually prefer to avoid the compat work and are happy to make it just into the latest rc1 during the merge window and further from there, there is no loss either. Some new devices we likely get on already established drivers should not be hard to add to a v4l-dvb tar ball we leave with support for the even older kernels. 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
