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

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 11:53 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> 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.

Maybe you could just use backports for those drivers?

johannes