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

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Oct 21 04:35:41 PDT 2015


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.

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