From: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:24:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201112212427.GA68372@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112211713.GD771438@scaer>
Hi Johannes,
Unless using mac80211, which require v3.10 current backports still support
kernel v3.0 right?
Thanks for info.
Kind regards,
Petr
> Julien, Petr, All,
> On 2020-11-12 22:01 +0100, Petr Vorel spake thusly:
> > > Attempting to compile this package with newer Kernel version (e.g. v5.4)
> > > fails with message:
> > > Generating local configuration database from kernel ...Kernel version parse failed!
> > > Upgrading the package to 5.8 fixes this issue. Anyways, v4.4 is now
> > > rather old and beat the very purpose of having newer drivers in older
> > > kernels.
> > > Note that since backports tag v4.14-rc4-1, the requirement on minimal
> > > kernel version changed from 3.0 to 3.10. See commit [1].
> > Good catch!
> Is this a mandatory dependency for *all* drivers, or only for the WiFi
> ones?
> > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/backports/backports.git/commit/?id=a0d05f9f9ca50ea8b1d60726fac6b54167257e76
> It looks like it is just about the crypto stuff needed for mac80211...
> Thoughts?
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> > Update also package/linux-backports/Config.in:
> > diff --git package/linux-backports/Config.in package/linux-backports/Config.in
> > index 362e6e4bc7..251d202fd2 100644
> > --- package/linux-backports/Config.in
> > +++ package/linux-backports/Config.in
> > @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_BACKPORTS
> > recent kernels, backported to older ones.
> > This version of linux-backports supports kernels starting
> > - from 3.0.
> > + from 3.10.
> > https://backports.wiki.kernel.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-11 16:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/linux-backports: use buildroot host flex and bison Julien Olivain
2020-11-11 16:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8 Julien Olivain
2020-11-11 21:47 ` Petr Vorel
2020-11-12 11:07 ` Julien Olivain
2020-11-11 21:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/linux-backports: use buildroot host flex and bison Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-12 10:55 ` Julien Olivain
2020-11-11 21:35 ` Petr Vorel
2020-11-12 12:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] package/linux-backports: use flex and bison to generate kconfig parser Julien Olivain
2020-11-12 12:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8 Julien Olivain
2020-11-12 12:34 ` Baruch Siach
2020-11-12 19:30 ` Peter Seiderer
2020-11-12 21:01 ` Petr Vorel
2020-11-12 21:17 ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-12 21:24 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
[not found] ` <MW3PR11MB476417BF2CC5E2E72CA4AE36E9E60@MW3PR11MB4764.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
2020-11-13 11:56 ` Julien Olivain
2020-11-12 20:53 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] package/linux-backports: use flex and bison to generate kconfig parser Petr Vorel
2020-11-12 21:24 ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-13 13:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] package/linux-backports: fix kernel version check Julien Olivain
2020-11-13 13:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8 Julien Olivain
2020-11-13 19:07 ` Petr Vorel
2020-11-13 22:21 ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-17 21:26 ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-13 19:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] package/linux-backports: fix kernel version check Petr Vorel
2020-11-13 22:08 ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-16 14:49 ` Peter Korsgaard
2020-11-15 15:09 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] package/linux-backports: use flex and bison to generate kconfig parser Peter Korsgaard
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