Yes... On Mon Feb 23 12:13 , hermann pitton sent: > >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 >> >> _: 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 >) -- 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
