Re: [Bluez-devel] New Bluetooth kernel patches available

[Stephen Crane <steve.crane@rococosoft.com>]

Hi Marcel,
2.4.18 is needed for the Sharp Zaurus (ROM 3.10) and actually using a BT
keyboard would be way cool :-)

I'd say maintain it and 2.4.23.

Regards
Steve

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 16:30, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I spent most time of the weekend to get out a new series of patches for
> the 2.4 kernel. Actually there are six supported kernels and the latest
> version of each patch also touches the input subsystem and parts of the
> CAPI implementation. People who plan to play with the Bluetooth HID
> support should enable CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT. The changelog and the patches
> themself can be found here
> 
> 	http://www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel/
> 
> It seems that the acceptance of these patches is very high, because the
> top 10 downloads are these
> 
> 	   2531  patch-2.4.22-mh1
> 	   1651  patch-2.4.20-mh12
> 	   1063  patch-2.4.21-mh2
> 	    868  patch-2.4.21-mh3
> 	    852  patch-2.4.20-mh10
> 	    788  patch-2.4.20-mh11
> 	    759  patch-2.4.21-mh4
> 	    560  patch-2.4.18-mh9
> 	    456  patch-2.4.20-mh6
> 	    418  patch-2.4.19-mh12
> 
> Even with my set of build and test scripts the job in putting out a new
> series of patches and backporting features to the older kernels consumes
> too much of my time. I personally don't use these patches anymore, but
> it seems that some people or companies still use them. At the moment I
> am thinking of cutting the maintenance for these kernels. Who has urgent
> needs that an older kernel version is still supported?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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