Re: Bumping required kernels to 3.0 for Linux backports ?

[Solomon Peachy <pizza@shaftnet.org>]

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:45:08PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Now, I'm all for dropping support if it really makes a difference, and
> we might want to drop them from the ckmake tests to reduce the pain, but
> I'm not entirely sure we should wholesale remove things if there are
> still users for them out there.

Speaking as an end-user of compat-wireless, compat-drivers, and later 
backports, I used them because I was stuck using a nominally-outdated, 
heavily-patched vendor-supplied kernel for an SoC/board that wasn't 
[well] supported by the mainline kernel.

To make things worse, I was trying to get a driver for the cw1200 family 
mainlined.  It finally made it into 3.11, but at the time, the bills 
were being paid by supporting clients that were stuck on 2.6.28, 2.6.35 
and 3.0, which coincidentally were what I was using to develop/test the 
driver at the time of the 3.11 release.

I no longer have any skin in the game (I've moved on to mostly 
microcontroller work) but please, don't drop support for older kernels
if the only reason is to save release-time checks, or worse, "just 
because"

My $0.02,

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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