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From: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: Pls add this driver to the kernel tree !!
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> Actually, there is some benefit in leaving the LINUX_VERSION_CODE checks
> there...  If someone wants to back-port the driver to 2.2, this makes it
> much easier.  Also, some people like to maintain a single driver for all
> of the kernel versions, so they don't have to bugfix each driver version.

backports hurt forward progress.

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