From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.63.242]:48836 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752340AbeEOUak (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2018 16:30:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1526416237.4450.17.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20180515_223042_217399_C215AB8D) Subject: Re: How to use backports? From: Johannes Berg To: Patrick Doyle Cc: backports@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 22:30:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20180515_222647_549797_2BBD3148) References: <1526414646.4450.13.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20180515_222647_549797_2BBD3148) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2018-05-15 at 16:26 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: > It turns out, for my project, I would prefer to use the "kernel > integration mode", since I would really like to turn off loadable > modules (not needed for my space-constrained embedded target). But if > the "too hard" LED comes on, I can let that go. You can try it I guess. For the "loadable module" mode you just remove "--integrate" from the command line and use a new (empty) directory for the output - the system then leaves there a setup where you can use "make menuconfig" etc. for out-of-tree module compilation. > Anyway... am I looking in the wrong place for documentation? Should I > be looking elsewhere? No, that seems about right, but nobody's maintaining it much. > How do folks use backports anyway? We use it with some of the devel/ scripts to make a git tree that follows the upstream kernel tree, but that just uses gentree internally. > OK, I'll try that. Thanks. > (that just failed to find a > ../buildroot/build/linux-custom/backports/Kconfig... which smells a > little like bitrot to me). That's ... a bit strange, that's the file it should be creating there for the integration? > If folks don't tend to use this tool on Ubuntu LTS releases, what > version of Linux do you use it on? What is known to work? I usually use one of Debian/testing or Fedora (currently F27 while I wait for some things I can't upgrade). We do run it one some kind of Ubuntu LTS at work, but I suspect they also installed spatch by hand, no idea how though. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in