From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 22:05:02 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 3/3] package/batman-adv: add note about linux mainline kernel module alternative In-Reply-To: <20210316215314.4d71f86c@gmx.net> References: <20210316181429.30804-1-ps.report@gmx.net> <20210316181429.30804-3-ps.report@gmx.net> <20210316201923.GC3443324@scaer> <20210316215314.4d71f86c@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20210316210502.GE3443324@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.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" 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 561 099 427 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'