On Oct 30 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote: > On 10/18/2011 10:03 PM, Piotr Chmura wrote: > > Patch taken from http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-as102-2/ [...] > > +#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE< KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 19)) > > I was wondering, could such a conditional compilation be simply skipped when > we are merging the driver into exactly known kernel version ? > For backports there are separate patches at media_build.git and I can't see > such an approach used in any driver upstream.
Compatibility code is in fact not allowed anymore upstream. But AFAIU, this patch here does not have such a cleanup in its scope. If the compat removal isn't already included later on in Piotr's series, it will be done later before this driver can be moved out of staging. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-== =-=- ====- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
