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

[Jeremy Hall <jhall@maoz.com>]

Hello,

I appreciate the concerns you have regarding patching and doing work by 
hand.  Could some scripts be written to automate this process some? I 
doubt I am the only one effected by this and would very much like to see 
things continue they way they "are" with active development occurring in 
both 2.4 and 2.6 code.

I'm not trying to make more work for you, believe it or not I've still got 
some applications that want the old API, and that definitely won't port to 
2.6, not to mention that I haven't performed any regression testing on 2.6 
with regards to latency.  For this to occur without warning is more than 
concerning to me.  Has development of 2.7 begun yet? If not, can we 
consider 2.6 stable enough to force people to move to it?

Is it possible discussion could occur before making such a change?

_J

In the new year, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> (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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