From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36117 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754557AbZCGAqM (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:46:12 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 01:46:11 +0100 (CET) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski To: Trent Piepho cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , Linux Media Mailing List , Jean Delvare Subject: Re: Results of the 'dropping support for kernels <2.6.22' poll In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200903022218.24259.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <20090304141715.0a1af14d@pedra.chehab.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Trent Piepho wrote: > > > ALSA used a partial tree, but their system was much worse than v4l-dvb's. > > > I think the reason more systems don't do it is that setting up the build > > > system we have with v4l-dvb was a lot of work. They don't have that. > > > > Right, it was a lot of work, it is still quite a bit of work (well, I'm > > not doing that work directly, but it affetcs me too, when I have to adjust > > patches, that I generated from a complete kernel tree to fit > > compatibility-"emhanced" versions), and it is not going to be less work. > > Why must you generate your patches from a different tree? One could just > as well say that the linux kernel indentation style is more work, since > they use GNU style have to translate their patch from a re-indented tree. [snip] Hans has already answered your question very well in this thread. I don't think I can add anything. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer