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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>, backports@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible to build-in backports modules into kernel
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:28:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1429291720.1885.5.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5531314D.1000706@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20150417_181411_559997_6D84A8C0)

On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 11:14 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

> The short answer is no for the backports code. If you want them built-in, grab 
> the mainline 4.0 or 3.19.4 source, configure, and build a complete new kernel.

Technically this is not true any more - the backports gentree.py script
now supports kernel integration where it copies the backport into
another kernel tree :)

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-17 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-17 13:30 Possible to build-in backports modules into kernel Petr Vorel
2015-04-17 16:14 ` Larry Finger
2015-04-17 17:28   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2015-04-17 18:03     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-04-17 18:22       ` Larry Finger
2015-04-17 18:26         ` Johannes Berg
2015-04-17 21:42           ` Petr Vorel

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