From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg Kroah-Hartman) Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 17:02:09 +0200 Subject: SKylake Edac support in linux 2.6.32.696 kernel build In-Reply-To: References: <20180831161450.GB26043@kroah.com> <20180831194727.GA8631@kroah.com> Message-ID: <20180902150209.GA25883@kroah.com> On Sun, Sep 02, 2018@03:45:01PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: > Hi Greg > > i am working on some project which is having huge changes and working > on kernel-2.6.32-131.696 > it will be very difficult to back port them into 4.8 . Why 4.8? That too is a totally unsupported kernel version. Anyway, randomly pulling in a driver from a newer by many years, if not almost a decade old (2.6.32 was released in 2009), is a very difficult task, and usually almost impossible to go that far back. That is not how Linux is developed or meant to be worked with at all. You are _really_ on your own here, only do this if you _really_ know what you are doing. Even then, I would not recommend you do this, as you are guaranteeing to create a monstrosity that only you can support, for forever, on your own. good luck! greg k-h