Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] RFC: Removing one indirection layer for patches

[Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>]

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On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 12:24:35PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > I think the major advantage here is that, whenever a person sends a
> > patch which is not going to work on older kernels, he must also send
> > a patch for compat.h/c.
> 
> Hi Antonio
> 
> This is where you are fighting again the kernel process. The kernel
> process does not care about older kernels, expect for patches flowing
> into stable as bug fixes. So anybody from outside of BATMAN will not
> supply such compat.[ch] changes.
> 
> Maybe its also time to evaluate the value of older kernels with newest
> BATMAN? Is the pain worth the gain? 

Well, at least we have to keep compatibility with some releases: most of our
users are Openwrt users, which means that we have to provide at least provide a
package (with all the bugfixes) that runs on some of the openwrt distributions.
Maybe, to alleviate this, we can think about dropping some kernel versions and
support only the most recent.

However, as stated before, this is more or less orthogonal to what we Sven is
proposing and we want to change now, but still it is a valuable suggestion that
we may want to keep for the next step.

Cheers,

> 
> 	Andrew

-- 
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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