> Applications are certainly using it. I know this for a fact for the ivtv driver where > feature improvements are marked that way. > > Without more research on how this is used I am not comfortable with this. > > Regards, > > Hans MythTV has a bunch of these too (mainly so the code can adapt to driver bugs that are fixed in later revisions). Putting Mauro's patch upstream will definitely cause breakage. Also, it screws up the ability for users to get fixes through the media_build tree (unless you are increasing the revision constantly with every merge you do). Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
