From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Vorel Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:01:03 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8 In-Reply-To: <20201112120155.333290-2-ju.o@free.fr> References: <20201111162208.362275-1-ju.o@free.fr> <20201112120155.333290-1-ju.o@free.fr> <20201112120155.333290-2-ju.o@free.fr> Message-ID: <20201112210103.GB60815@pevik> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Julien, Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel > 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