I thought we were going to change the refcounts from .inc_use to .owner _after_ the branch... But if you can get the refcount changes into 2.4.21 then maybe we don't need to branch at all? Ky?sti M?lkki wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Mark Studebaker wrote: > > > but it needs to compile outside kernel too. > > Yes, but video4linux will still compile in kernel tree and use > different i2c header files. Also I dropped .inc_use() > completely, in favour of .owner that is common for 2.4 and 2.5. > > This temporarily breaks non-CVS i2c code in kernel, but patches > can be backported from 2.5.54+. Mkpatch should apply these too. > > Once this is done, I would consider 2.8.0 release and sending patches > for inclusion in 2.4.21. > > -- > Ky?sti M?lkki > kmalkki at cc.hut.fi
