On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:18:43PM +0000, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote: > Some registers in the new variant make backwards compatibility easy, > however attempting to combine the two register maps in other components > makes the driver a mess.
OK, that makes sense - if the changes really are substantial then dropping the old revisions can be reasonable. > I realise that the Linux community will have different aims however and > I would like to support those as much as I can. It's not just the community here - it's just a general thing with users, the same issues face people using out of tree drivers (though communication with the developers is often weaker there).
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