From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.62]:54095 "EHLO mail-gw1-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751796AbaEZOPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2014 10:15:44 -0400 Message-ID: <53834C8E.5020903@broadcom.com> (sfid-20140526_161546_905133_A9DF5DDB) Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 16:15:42 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fariya CC: Subject: Re: Procedure to make the driver into the backports project References: <53834533.8030800@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <53834533.8030800@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html