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

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Message-ID: <YflmyHrYg1xJlW0u@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 1 Feb 2022 16:58:48 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Sean Young <sean@...s.org>
Cc:     Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        lkp@...ts.01.org, kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/ir: fix build with ancient kernel headers

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.