From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from quad.pendre.co.uk ([195.137.4.79]:40135 "EHLO quad.pendre.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754460Ab3DBVTS (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:19:18 -0400 Message-ID: <515B4994.3030309@pendre.co.uk> (sfid-20130402_231923_075543_11BA9561) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:11:48 +0100 From: Phil Perry MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "backports@vger.kernel.org" CC: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [ANN] new backports project References: <1364908781.8204.14.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20130402_151948_622703_76140D33) <1364923241.8204.15.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1364923241.8204.15.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/04/13 18:20, Johannes Berg wrote: > >> * Redhat kernel backport support -- this should be fairly easy > I too am very interested in support for RHEL. We had support up to date for compat-wireless-3.5 under RHEL-6.3. Unsurprisingly the release of RHEL-6.4 broke a whole load of stuff given the amount of backporting RH did into their kernel (I believe they backported the wireless stack from ~ kernel-3.5 into their kernel). I (and a colleague) played with compat-drivers-2013-03-07-u.tar.bz2 to get alx to build under RHEL-6.4 but I never got as far as looking at building everything. The seemingly endless cycle of breakage on every RHEL release and having to fix it kind of left me losing the will to keep fixing it, especially as for the moment the RHEL kernel has a relatively recent wireless driver stack. Any solution that might ease this break and fix cycle would be very welcome here. > I addressed this, but I'm unsure of it and don't have a way to test it, > so any testing would be appreciated (as it is in general, of course) > I've not looked closely at what you've done, but I have an interest in building/packaging compat-drivers for RHEL and can possibly help test. If you have a snapshot that you think should build on RHEL or that I could use as a starting point? Phil