From: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 3/3] package/batman-adv: add note about linux mainline kernel module alternative
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 22:05:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210316210502.GE3443324@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210316215314.4d71f86c@gmx.net>
Peter, All,
On 2021-03-16 21:53 +0100, Peter Seiderer spake thusly:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 21:19:23 +0100, "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > Peter, All,
> > On 2021-03-16 19:14 +0100, Peter Seiderer spake thusly:
> > > Since version 2.6.38 batman-adv is integreated into the linux mainline
> > > kernel ([1], [2]) so add a note about it in the Config.in help text.
> > Note also that the versionwe have is 2019.3, two years old, and the
> > in-tree version for recent kernels is probably in better shape than what
> > we carry.
> See
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/patch/20210311210804.9616-2-ps.report at gmx.net/
> for update to 2021.0
Hehe... :-)
> > Shouldn't we drop this package, now?
>
> Would suspect the use case/reason why batman-adv is still provided as out-of-tree module is
> to enable up-to-date batman with older kernels...as the 2021.0 release announcement mentions
> compatibility with 4.4 to 5.11 (see [3])...
OK, that make sense. Thanks.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-16 18:14 [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/3] package/batman-adv: fix compile with BR2_PACKAGE_BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V disabled Peter Seiderer
2021-03-16 18:14 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 2/3] package/batman-adv: needs linux kernel libcrc32c support Peter Seiderer
2021-03-16 20:16 ` Yann E. MORIN
2021-03-23 17:28 ` Peter Korsgaard
2021-03-16 18:14 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 3/3] package/batman-adv: add note about linux mainline kernel module alternative Peter Seiderer
2021-03-16 20:19 ` Yann E. MORIN
2021-03-16 20:53 ` Peter Seiderer
2021-03-16 21:05 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2021-03-23 17:28 ` Peter Korsgaard
2021-03-16 20:15 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/3] package/batman-adv: fix compile with BR2_PACKAGE_BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V disabled Yann E. MORIN
2021-03-23 17:27 ` Peter Korsgaard
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