> > *Didn't say that it doesn't work. It hasn't yet been added to our 3.14 > tree which will require a backport. It looks like it should land upstream > in 3.17 and we'll likely backport it from there.* >
What I mean is this: Why doesn't the capemgr that is in 3.8.x work in 3.14.x *right now* Why is it not a drop-in addition ? Obviously something is different, but I am trying to understand why the kernel progresses in a manner that breaks things in previous version, that are not all that old. On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Jason Kridner <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:35 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Jason, >>> >>> What is so radically different that capemgr does not work ? >>> >> >> Didn't say that it doesn't work. It hasn't yet been added to our 3.14 >> tree which will require a backport. It looks like it should land upstream >> in 3.17 and we'll likely backport it from there. >> > > 1 more step: > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ae36e95cf81c98b111b84317adeb358aaffa80e2 > > Group changes to the device tree. In preparation for adding device tree > overlay support, OF_DYNAMIC is reworked so that a set of device tree > changes can be prepared and applied to the tree all at once. OF_RECONFIG > notifiers see the most significant change here so that users always get a > consistent view of the tree. Notifiers generation is moved from before a > change to after it, and notifiers for a group of changes are emitted after > the entire block of changes have been applied > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
