Re: Procedure to make the driver into the backports project

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 05/26/14 15:44, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 05/26/14 11:47, Fariya wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My company's wireless driver is a part of the latest 3.15-rc kernel.
>> My question is pertaining to the backports project. How does the
>> procedure at backports work? Will my driver be picked up and
>> backported by the backports group now that it is part of the kernel or
>> the owner of the driver needs to backport the driver [for various
>> kernels] and provide it on to this mailing list initially?
>
> The backport repo does not hold a backported driver, but a framework to
> create a package of the latest drivers which can be automatically
> backported to various kernels.
>
> When you check out the backports repository on kernel.org there is a
> copy-list file which lists everything that is copied from the kernel
> tree to be included in the backport package. First step would be to add
> you driver to that list. If you are lucky that might be sufficient.

However, a quick try over here shows not :-p

/tmp/backporst-rsi/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c: In 
function rsi_mac80211_attach:
/tmp/backporst-rsi/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.c:988:2: 
error: implicit declaration of function ether_addr_copy 
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[7]: *** 
[/tmp/backporst-rsi/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_mac80211.o] Error 1

Regards,
Arend

> Regards,
> Arend
>
>> Regards,
>> Fariya
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