From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.38]:5061 "EHLO mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755984AbZCGVM6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Mar 2009 16:12:58 -0500 From: Adam Baker To: Trent Piepho Subject: Re: Results of the 'dropping support for kernels <2.6.22' poll Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 21:12:52 +0000 Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , Linux Media Mailing List , Jean Delvare References: <200903022218.24259.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903072112.53088.linux@baker-net.org.uk> Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Saturday 07 March 2009, Trent Piepho wrote: > Audio was out of tree.  If they had a better system, like v4l-dvb does, > they might well still be out of tree.  And aren't there some wireless > packages that are out of tree? Wireless development is done in tree and then copied to a compat tree that contains just the wireless drivers, stack and compatibility stubs. A year or two back there were some drivers developed out of tree so they could be tested more easily but it became too much of an overhead to work that way. Adam