Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:24:27 -0500 | From | Timur Tabi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver |
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Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The lesson to learn here is obviously not to ship binaries of applications > to customers before the driver has been merged in a mainline kernel.
Believe me, I know this, but unfortunately I have no control over every aspect of our development cycle.
> The best way out that I can see is to make the driver carry the proper > interface in the upstream version, but to have a private patch to support > both interface versions in the kernel you ship on machines that require > backwards compatibility. Once you have phased out the user application, > you can then drop that patch and use the upstream version of the > interfaces.
I think I can make that work.
-- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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