From: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -hg] Warn user that driver is backported and might not work as expected
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:24:40 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C959E98.2060409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C938158.9020604@redhat.com>
Hi,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Since the migration to -git, less developers are using the -hg tree. Also, some
> changes are happening upstream that would require much more than just compiling
> the tree with an older version, to be sure that the backport won't break anything,
> like the removal of BKL.
>
> As normal users might not be aware of those issues, and bug reports may be sent
> based on a backported tree, add some messages to warn about the usage of a
> backported experimental (unsupported) tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks!
Cheers
Douglas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-19 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-17 14:55 [PATCH -hg] Warn user that driver is backported and might not work as expected Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-09-18 22:57 ` David Ellingsworth
2010-09-19 5:25 ` Douglas Schilling Landgraf
2010-09-19 5:24 ` Douglas Schilling Landgraf [this message]
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