Re: [PATCH] backport: allow compilation with Ubuntu's 3.13

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 05/20/2015 11:42 AM, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
>
> Good question... I don't know. OTOH, distros don't really support
> backport. You can't really blame them if they break backport, why should
> they care?
> I agree. It is annoying. We can try to convince them, but I don't think
> that saying "you are all wrong" is the right path. Maybe we should try
> to have them more involved in backport to fix it themselves?
> And explain to them how important it is to be able to run backport on
> top of all their shipped kernels?

Supporting backport would be a first step, but that won't help all of the rtl8* 
repos that I have at GitHub. Most of those do not have drivers in the kernel, 
thus the users are dependent on that kind of external repo; however, I do not 
have any desire to find out what macro needs to be tested so that these drivers 
will build on distros that I do not use.

I guess I should report a bug to whatever disto breaks my driver and request 
that they fix it. I already know how much that will help :)

Larry