Re: [PATCH] selftests/ir: fix build with ancient kernel headers

From: Sean Young
Date: Tue Feb 01 2022 - 12:10:58 EST


On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 04:58:48PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 04:53:11PM +0000, Sean Young wrote:
> > +/* Support ancient lirc.h which does not have these values */
>
> Can we have a little more information here, such as "Can be removed once
> RHEL 8 is no longer a relevant testing platform"? That will save people
> doing archaology to find out when it's safe to remove.

That totally makes sense.

Having said that, I have no idea what platforms are being used for testing,
so I don't know if RHEL 8 is the only one that needs this. Is there anyone
who could shed some light on what platforms should be supported?

Thanks,

Sean