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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Kris Bahnsen via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
Cc: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>,
	kris@embeddedTS.com
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wilc-driver: bump version to 2024.04
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 21:24:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240715212442.367a9df9@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27d046a7a40bbc72279aac3e5971d8d58842b55d.camel@embeddedTS.com>

On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:25:13 -0700
Kris Bahnsen via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> wrote:

> Be advised that this does NOT support "up to" Linux 6.6. The latest
> updates from Microchip drop any backwards compatibility support, which
> is why we have not pushed this up to Buildroot yet.
> 
> I think this only will support kernels 6.2~6.6 and currently do not
> believe it will compile against upstream Linux 6.9 (I tested it a while
> ago but don't remember the outcome as it wasn't important).
> 
> As I mentioned in my previous email responding to build failures, we're
> working on a solution to be able to handle backwards compatibility with
> 'backports' but are first catching up on other tasks.

So what can we do in the mean time? Support a few versions of the
driver, and let the user chose?

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-15 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-15 18:02 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/wilc-driver: bump version to 2024.04 Giulio Benetti
2024-07-15 18:25 ` Kris Bahnsen via buildroot
2024-07-15 18:54   ` Giulio Benetti
2024-07-15 19:24   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2024-07-15 20:11     ` Kris Bahnsen via buildroot

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