From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.xlhost.de ([84.200.252.118]:56032 "EHLO app1b.xlhost.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750834Ab3KTL0s (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:26:48 -0500 Message-ID: <528C9C76.8060108@kpanic.de> (sfid-20131120_122650_308506_7B5FE515) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:26:46 +0100 From: Stefan Assmann MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: Hauke Mehrtens , mcgrof@kernel.org, backports@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] backports: remove obsolete linux/bitops.h header References: <1384784803-16935-1-git-send-email-sassmann@kpanic.de> <528BEB63.3080600@hauke-m.de> <528C7302.5030501@kpanic.de> <1384936585.14295.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1384936585.14295.2.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 20.11.2013 09:36, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 09:29 +0100, Stefan Assmann wrote: >> On 19.11.2013 23:51, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >>> On 11/18/2013 03:26 PM, Stefan Assmann wrote: >>>> The header seems to be obsolete. Removing it and running devel/ckmake didn't >>>> reveal any errors. Missing parts can always be re-added in the new >>>> include_next fashion if necessary. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann >>> >>> Some of these functions are needed, because they are not provided by old >>> kernel versions. >> >> Let me know what's a good way of figuring out what's still needed and >> I'll replace the old header the way that Johannes suggested. > > Easiest is probably to try compiling against the oldest kernel we still > support - that would be 2.6.25 - until all the drivers compile :) > > johannes > OK, to get started I tried: ./gentree.py --clean --git-revision v2.6.25 ~/linux /dev/shm/2.6.25 Get original source files from git ... Apply patches ... Failed to apply changes from collateral-evolutions/network/0001-netdev_ops/bluetooth_bnep.patch patching file net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 223. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file net/bluetooth/bnep/netdev.c.rej Sorry if I'm missing something there. Or do I have to do it another way? Stefan