Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755944Ab1FIUYq (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:24:46 -0400 Received: from ch1ehsobe004.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.181.184]:49002 "EHLO CH1EHSOBE013.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755782Ab1FIUYm (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:24:42 -0400 X-SpamScore: -3 X-BigFish: VS-3(zz98dKzz1202hzzz2dh2a8h668h839h62h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 1:0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:70.37.183.190;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPVD:NLI;H:mail.freescale.net;RD:none;EFVD:NLI Message-ID: <4DF12BFB.5030102@freescale.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:24:27 -0500 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Freescale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110429 Fedora/3.6.17-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] [v4] drivers/virt: introduce Freescale hypervisor management driver References: <1307573154-15838-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <201106090929.23671.arnd@arndb.de> <4DF11715.5030001@freescale.com> <201106092220.22246.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201106092220.22246.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginatorOrg: freescale.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 25 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/