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From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:36:05 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 1/1] Added linux drivers backports project
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Petr, All,

On 2015-07-19 15:29 +0200, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> On 2015-07-02 00:58 +0200, Petr Vorel spake thusly:
> > https://backports.wiki.kernel.org
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> > Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> 
> Since there's quite some work left to be done, and we would like to have
> this as part of the next release, I'm adopting this patch to fix the
> remaining issues that Arnout and I raised earlier.
> 
> However, I have a question, see below...
> 
> > diff --git a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..d45166a
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk
> > @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
> > +################################################################################
> > +#
> > +# linux-backports
> > +#
> > +################################################################################
> > +
> > +LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR = 4.0.1
> 
> How are the versions of Linux and linux-backports related?
> 
> I.e. does linux-backports have to match the Linux version, or can we
> use whatever linux-backports version with whatever Linux version?

Forget it, I now found the info you did put in the help text! ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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