* [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Are older kernels abandoned?
@ 2010-01-11 7:29 Gus Wirth
2010-01-11 8:06 ` Andrew Lunn
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From: Gus Wirth @ 2010-01-11 7:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
Now that work is under way to incorporate B.A.T.M.A.N (batman-adv) into
the mainline Linux kernel, hopefully 2.6.33, will older kernels be
abandoned?
I have some embedded systems that are on 2.6.30.10 and running fine, and
I really don't want to have to put in a new kernel and recertify the
software just to get some improvements to B.A.T.M.A.N.
Is there any consideration to doing something similar to compat-wireless
but for B.A.T.M.A.N (batman-adv) instead?
Gus
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* Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Are older kernels abandoned?
2010-01-11 7:29 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Are older kernels abandoned? Gus Wirth
@ 2010-01-11 8:06 ` Andrew Lunn
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From: Andrew Lunn @ 2010-01-11 8:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:29:46PM -0800, Gus Wirth wrote:
> Now that work is under way to incorporate B.A.T.M.A.N (batman-adv) into
> the mainline Linux kernel, hopefully 2.6.33, will older kernels be
> abandoned?
>
> I have some embedded systems that are on 2.6.30.10 and running fine, and
> I really don't want to have to put in a new kernel and recertify the
> software just to get some improvements to B.A.T.M.A.N.
>
> Is there any consideration to doing something similar to compat-wireless
> but for B.A.T.M.A.N (batman-adv) instead?
Older kernels are still supported. The development work is being
performed in subversion. This tree has all the backwards compatibility
code which allows it be compiled on some older kernels, currently
2.6.20 - 2.6.32.
I then take the code out of subversion and put it into git. The git
repository has all this backwards compatibility removed in order that
i can make clean patches for this development work for submission to
mainline in 2.6.34.
Andrew
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