From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:57046 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932194AbbBZNNo (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:13:44 -0500 Message-ID: <54EF1C05.2000901@broadcom.com> (sfid-20150226_141347_089387_4D1D062C) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:13:41 +0100 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Subject: Re: [PATCH] backports: allow building backports package on 4.0+ kernel References: <1424954998-31984-1-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com> (sfid-20150226_135011_981321_0099BE5A) <1424955956.1885.23.camel@sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1424955956.1885.23.camel@sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/26/15 14:05, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 13:49 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> When attempting to build backport package the error message >> "Kernel version parse failed" popped up. Realizing the machine >> was already running a 4.0-rc1 kernel, this patch fixes the >> issue. At least until kernel 9.x it will. > > Is this really enough? we also generate those kernel version Kconfig > symbols for dependencies - I htink that needs to be adjusted as well. Will double-check the results. Building it worked without issues, but it could be due to the fact that backport and target kernel versions are the same. You made me a bit wary to actually load the modules, but I will do it anyway ;-) Arend > johannes >