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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH, Xenomai 2.5.6]
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To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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On 07/27/2012 05:53 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On 07/27/2012 02:45 PM, dietmar.schindler@manroland-web.com wrote:
>
>> These are patches for two files in ksrc/nucleus of Xenomai 2.5.6 to
>> cure an incompatibility with Linux 2.4; if they are bad in form,
>> please let me know.
>
>
> This is kind of you to provide the patch, but I do not think we are
> going to issue any new release in the 2.5 branch.
>

Actually, we have a set of commits lingering in the 2.5 maintenance 
tree, enough to close it for good with 2.5.7. But I agree, this would be 
an exception to the general rule.

> Even though 2.6 is technically a new branch, with a different ABI, very
> few things (actually, none that come to my mind) have changed in the
> API, so, the update should be painless.
>


-- 
Philippe.