From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:24:22 +0000 Subject: compile bug workaround (ticket 1344) Message-Id: <20031028223052.7f9310c4.khali@linux-fr.org> List-Id: References: <20031026224736.GA6514@avalon.gci.net> In-Reply-To: <20031026224736.GA6514@avalon.gci.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org > > Well, the bug is fixed in our latest release (2.8.1) anyway. > > That's good, but I run kernel 2.4.21, and I use bttv, so I needed > the i2c kernel patch. Oh, OK, I understand now. > Kernel 2.4.22 has a patch for i2c-2.8.1, but > for some reason, kernel 2.4.21 only has a patch for i2c-2.8.0. The reason is that I had no time to backport the i2c-2.8.1 patch to 2.4.21. And I'd expect people compiling kernels by themselves to use the latest stable sources available, that is, 2.4.22 for now. This is the reason why I did not feel like wasting my time packporting the patch. > So at this point, anyone running kernel 2.4.21 will be stuck with > version 2.8.0. That said, the backport would be rather easy (it's just a matter of repackaging all the correct files in one convenient patch), so I might consider doing it if it might help people like you. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/