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Miller" , David Le Goff References: <20190919105153.15285-1-Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com> <20190919112508.GA3037175@kroah.com> From: Arend Van Spriel Message-ID: <7639195f-59f0-a0dc-02f2-45b3a08e7002@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:39:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190919112508.GA3037175@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On 9/19/2019 1:25 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> - I also kept compatibility code for earlier Linux kernel version. I >> may drop it in future. Maybe I will maintain compatibility with >> older kernels in a external set of patches. > That has to be dropped for the in-kernel version. There is no need to maintain such compatibility. You basically get it for free with the linux-backports project [1]. Regards, Arend [1] https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page