Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] misc: bcm-vk: add Broadcom VK driver

[Scott Branden]

Thanks for link.

On 2020-05-13 5:30 a.m., Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:50:46AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:31:28PM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
> >
> > That's not how kernel drivers in the tree work, sorry.  They do not
> > contain "older kernel support" in them, they work as a whole with the
> > rest of the kernel they ship with only.
> >
> > Otherwise all drivers would be a total mess over time, can you imagine
> > doing this for the next 20+ years?  Not maintainable.
> Scott, now imagine the amount of cleanup you'd need to do to your driver
> to get it to a state where it doesn't depend on any old kernel. That's
> the exact shape of the driver we want.
>
> To backport, you can look into the backports project which strives to
> backport drivers automatically [0] to older kernels.
>
> [0] https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
>
>    Luis
Will drop legacy support from patch and look closer at this.

Thanks,
ÂScott