From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:34:04 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump
 version to 5.8
In-Reply-To: <20201112120155.333290-2-ju.o@free.fr>
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Hi Julien,

On Thu, Nov 12 2020, Julien Olivain wrote:
> 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].

The help text of BR2_PACKAGE_LINUX_BACKPORTS in Config.in should be
updated.

baruch

> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/backports/backports.git/commit/?id=a0d05f9f9ca50ea8b1d60726fac6b54167257e76
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
> ---
> Changes v1 -> v2:
>   - Add a note about the change in minimal kernel version (3.0 -> 3.10).
> ---
>  package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash | 4 ++--
>  package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash
> index f39bc2ed27..0d60955b02 100644
> --- a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash
> +++ b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -# From: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v4.4.2/sha256sums.asc
> -sha256  a979e194c2ed9fdfca092a448e626d85c5af0e4de5ad993c0967afd15af01285  backports-4.4.2-1.tar.xz
> +# From: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v5.8/sha256sums.asc
> +sha256  19b4174d89bf11ee221458e11f1e8dace26558498774b823051156f522d2036b  backports-5.8-1.tar.xz
>  # Locally computed
>  sha256  af8067302947c01fd9eee72befa54c7e3ef8a48fecde7fd71277f2290b2bf0f7  COPYING
> diff --git a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk
> index 030d7a2864..7e725147dc 100644
> --- a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk
> +++ b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>  #
>  ################################################################################
>  
> -LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR = 4.4.2
> +LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR = 5.8
>  LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION = $(LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR)-1
>  LINUX_BACKPORTS_SOURCE = backports-$(LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION).tar.xz
>  LINUX_BACKPORTS_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v$(LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR)


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