From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Some help about backporting a nic module to 2.6.32 longterm
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:30:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120110013027.GA11889@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120109230818.56662fe0@blade.ferraz.is-a-geek.net>
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:08:18PM -0200, Andr? Ferraz wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> the problem is that i need to stay with the 2.6.32 grsec
> patchset for my servers, if i didn't have any dependencies like
> that sure i'll be using the 3.2 kernel.
Why are you using grsec? Why has it not been updated in the many years
since 2.6.32 was released?
> The idea is to just backport this device driver, the rest of
> the drivers works pretty well, but i didnt find any HowTo or
> some documentation specific to the process of update a driver
> on your kernel source.
Just backporting a single driver, usually isn't that easy, as it relies
on other parts of the kernel.
The kernel is ment to be used as a "whole" release, picking and choosing
is very tough at times, and you will be on your own.
I don't recommend it at all.
good luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-10 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-09 21:19 Some help about backporting a nic module to 2.6.32 longterm André Ferraz
2012-01-09 22:49 ` Greg KH
2012-01-10 1:08 ` André Ferraz
2012-01-10 1:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-01-11 21:42 ` André Ferraz
2012-01-11 22:13 ` Greg KH
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