[linux-dvb] dvb-kernel CVS branched for Linux 2.4

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

(http://linuxtv.org/news/js/branch24.xml)

Maintaining the DVB driver for both Linux 2.4 and 2.6 in the same CVS
tree became too problematic. E.g. it is not possible to create DVB
driver patches for the mainline kernel directly from CVS without doing
a lot of work by hand. We also need to do some structural changes which
are not easy to do when we always have to keep 2.4 backwards
compatibility.

Consequently, I've created a "linux_2_4" branch in dvb-kernel CVS for
the driver version for Linux 2.4.

Main development in CVS HEAD will be for Linux 2.6 only, and all 2.4
compatibility stuff will soon be removed from HEAD.

It largely depends on public interest and your help (hint, hint) for
improvements from HEAD to be backported to 2.4. If you want to checkout
the 2.4 drivers use the following command:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@linuxtv.org:/cvs/linuxtv co -P -rlinux_2_4
dvb-kernel

You can also select the linux_2_4 branch when viewing files in the CVS
web interface http://linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dvb-kernel/ .


Johannes


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