From aa95f93b6207133e200a9b6a8f86c2d93a2e0a87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Till Stensitzki <mail.till@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 13:37:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] symlog-scale: Remove asssert linscale >= 1.

I can't see why the assert was needed and it does excatly what i would expect from it.
---
 CHANGELOG               | 3 +++
 lib/matplotlib/scale.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 9f1b2c86ca5b..3c9f890efd7e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2014-05-14 Allow the linscale keyword parameter of symlog scale to be
+           smaller one.
+
 2014-05-02 Added colorblind-friendly colormap, named 'Wistia'.
 
 2014-04-27 Improved input clean up in Axes.{h|v}lines
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/scale.py b/lib/matplotlib/scale.py
index 74a142cfc88e..8f771d90f368 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/scale.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/scale.py
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ def __init__(self, axis, **kwargs):
 
         assert base > 1.0
         assert linthresh > 0.0
-        assert linscale >= 1.0
+        assert linscale > 0.0
 
         self._transform = self.SymmetricalLogTransform(base,
                                                        linthresh,