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From: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:01:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201112210103.GB60815@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201112120155.333290-2-ju.o@free.fr>

Hi Julien,

Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@gmail.com>

> Attempting to compile this package with newer Kernel version (e.g. v5.4)
> fails with message:

>    Generating local configuration database from kernel ...Kernel version parse failed!

> Upgrading the package to 5.8 fixes this issue. Anyways, v4.4 is now
> rather old and beat the very purpose of having newer drivers in older
> kernels.

> Note that since backports tag v4.14-rc4-1, the requirement on minimal
> kernel version changed from 3.0 to 3.10. See commit [1].
Good catch!

In that case, can please person who merges this update
package/linux-backports/Config.in?


Kind regards,
Petr

> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/backports/backports.git/commit/?id=a0d05f9f9ca50ea8b1d60726fac6b54167257e76

Update also package/linux-backports/Config.in:

diff --git package/linux-backports/Config.in package/linux-backports/Config.in
index 362e6e4bc7..251d202fd2 100644
--- package/linux-backports/Config.in
+++ package/linux-backports/Config.in
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_BACKPORTS
 	  recent kernels, backported to older ones.
 
 	  This version of linux-backports supports kernels starting
-	  from 3.0.
+	  from 3.10.
 
 	  https://backports.wiki.kernel.org
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-12 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-11 16:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/linux-backports: use buildroot host flex and bison Julien Olivain
2020-11-11 16:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8 Julien Olivain
2020-11-11 21:47   ` Petr Vorel
2020-11-12 11:07     ` Julien Olivain
2020-11-11 21:06 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] package/linux-backports: use buildroot host flex and bison Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-12 10:55   ` Julien Olivain
2020-11-11 21:35 ` Petr Vorel
2020-11-12 12:01 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] package/linux-backports: use flex and bison to generate kconfig parser Julien Olivain
2020-11-12 12:01   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8 Julien Olivain
2020-11-12 12:34     ` Baruch Siach
2020-11-12 19:30     ` Peter Seiderer
2020-11-12 21:01     ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2020-11-12 21:17       ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-12 21:24         ` Petr Vorel
     [not found]           ` <MW3PR11MB476417BF2CC5E2E72CA4AE36E9E60@MW3PR11MB4764.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
2020-11-13 11:56             ` Julien Olivain
2020-11-12 20:53   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] package/linux-backports: use flex and bison to generate kconfig parser Petr Vorel
2020-11-12 21:24   ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-13 13:09   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] package/linux-backports: fix kernel version check Julien Olivain
2020-11-13 13:09     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8 Julien Olivain
2020-11-13 19:07       ` Petr Vorel
2020-11-13 22:21       ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-17 21:26       ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-13 19:06     ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/2] package/linux-backports: fix kernel version check Petr Vorel
2020-11-13 22:08     ` Yann E. MORIN
2020-11-16 14:49     ` Peter Korsgaard
2020-11-15 15:09   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/2] package/linux-backports: use flex and bison to generate kconfig parser Peter Korsgaard

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