On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:41:58AM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Is there an official cut-off of support for old kernels in master?
Not really. I like the idea that we continue to work on older kernels, and it's occasionally useful to run emc on an old 6.06 system I have (master still compiles there, last I checked). On the other hand, we target a few specific kernels (for 2.4 we'll target the current 8.04 kernel and whatever ends up on 10.04). In the absence of other active maintainers, it's simply not possible to make sure we're *actually* compatible with a wider range. Looking at the change in question, I don't know that the payoff for breaking older kernels is that great. On the other hand, argv_split() and argv_free() look pretty simple; if we keep the change I'd sure consider for inclusion a cut&paste version into rtapi with a suitable #if KERNEL_VERSION < ... check guarding it, just in case someone actually cares about those systems. Does that sufficiently muddy the waters for you? Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
