Am Freitag, den 20.02.2009, 10:49 +0100 schrieb Jean Delvare:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:53:16 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Friday 20 February 2009 04:57:11 hermann pitton wrote:
> > > Hans decided deliberately to extend backward compat even down to 2.6.16,
> > > now seeing the bill.
> > 
> > I didn't extend it, instead I reduced the backward compat to 2.6.16 at the 
> > time. It supported older kernels as well back then, however since nobody 
> > ever compiled for those older kernels quite a few drivers were broken.
> > 
> > Creating the daily build system at least ensures that we know v4l-dvb can 
> > compile for those kernels we support officially. In the past this was more 
> > based on hope and a prayer :-)
> 
> That's better than before, but just because it builds doesn't mean it
> works...
> 

Given the restricted testing (!) capabilities in both directions, I
don't even know how many and different devices we support currently and
that it works is not always guaranteed on a released kernel either :)

Does Linus know it better ;)

Cheers,
Hermann


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