From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:15280 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805AbaDKHvn (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:51:43 -0400 Message-ID: <53479F0B.6070909@broadcom.com> (sfid-20140411_095146_046984_6413AAEA) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:51:39 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: Takashi Iwai , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Felix Fietkau , "backports@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jiri Slaby , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: Bumping required kernels to 3.0 for Linux backports ? References: <53451077.2030102@openwrt.org> <20140409191225.GA10560@kroah.com> <20140409202224.GA12953@kroah.com> <20140409210613.GA14392@kroah.com> <5346CF27.3070406@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/04/14 20:56, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> Ok, I guess my voice was cracking when I mentioned 2.6.38 as being used over >> here. I am probably alone in that desert. > > I thought broadcom didn't use backports? If they do can you explain > how? Also what drivers do you need enabled for your use case ? That was 2 years ago when you asked me ;-) Since then I have been using it to backport the brcm80211 mainline drivers to 1) Android kernel, ie. 3.4 kernel, and 2) Fedora 19 which is actually fixed to 3.11 kernel. So we use backports these days for enabling brcm80211 drivers on various test equipment that uses older kernels. Regards, Arend