On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:15:01 +0100 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 No. > > Optional question: > > Why: For a couple of reasons: 1) This will remove testers from our user database; 2) The current way of backporting is not scaling. Just dropping support for a random version is just postponing the question that we need to re-think about the way for backport; 3) This doesn't solve the development issues we have of not using -git. This causes lots of work when sending patches uptreaming, on when someone changes something upstream and a backport is needed. So, in practice, this won't solve any real problem. I'm right now working on another way of allowing backport that will better scale, and will allow developers to use -git, without losing backport for users. Cheers, Mauro -- 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
