On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > As we were discussing, let's disentangle the header file mess > and the various random includes all over the place and instead > provide each header file that needs something backported with > those backported things and and #include_next. > > The list.h stuff was a bit tricky, but not really a big issue > thanks to Hauke's idea. > > I'm also removing compatibility with < 2.6.24 ... it just doesn't > seem worth it any more. > > Up until patch 22 it passes ckmake --allyesconfig, but then after > that I haven't tried and clearly with patch 24 it won't, that one > can only work for kernels 3.5 and up or so since not all of the > compat headers are dissolved yet. > > One of the nice things is that we can get rid of the pr_fmt mess, > that's a huge patch removal. But overall, this is also nicer as > it will better replicate the include structure of the kernel.
I'm supportive of the switch. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
