Re: [PATCH 4/8] kernel-devsrc: remove python2 dependency

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 08:23:58AM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 2:32 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 06:06:04PM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:58 PM Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 04:11:43PM -0400, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> > > > >...
> > > > > There's zero risk to these, and no reason to sit on them.
> > > >
> > > > What range of LTS kernels is covered by the "zero risk"?
> > >
> > > It has nothing to do with LTS kernels.
>...
> > How do your changes interact with a BSP layer that provides
> > the upstream maintained LTS kernel 4.4?
> 
> As mentioned in other parts of the threads, we test against the
> reference kernel's in master. Other versions can either bbappend, or
> send patches. That's unfortunately how it has to be.

It is an unexpected meaning of "zero risk" when this excludes 
breakages with kernels other than the ones in master.

One of the non-python changes to perf blew up the build for me even when 
trying with a kernel that is only a few months behind on the 4.19 branch,
so there's some patches for me to send next month.

> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce

cu
Adrian

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