[PATCH 03/48] staging: etnaviv: remove compat MMU code

Lucas Stach l.stach at pengutronix.de
Wed Oct 21 05:37:16 PDT 2015


Am Mittwoch, den 21.10.2015, 12:35 +0100 schrieb Russell King - ARM
Linux:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:18:48PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:57:15PM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > > There is no point in keeping backwards compatibility to older
> > > kernel versions in a driver destined to mainline.
> > 
> > You are correct, however the repository I keep is always based on the
> > previous non-rc kernel release, and I want it to work not only with
> > that release, but also the future -rc's as well.  It means that from
> > time to time, I will include compatibility across a merge window, but
> > I do intend to drop it.
> 
> I'm not sure what version you've generated this patch against, but I
> can't apply it without significant changes to your patch.
> 
> I think instead, I'm going to create a patch removing the v4.1 code
> from my commit myself, and merge it into my original commit as the
> 4.1 code is no longer relevant.
> 

That's fine with me.

Regards,
Lucas
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