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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver
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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