Backporting newer EDAC drivers to "stable" tree 2.6.27.x?

Backporting newer EDAC drivers to "stable" tree 2.6.27.x?

[Carsten Aulbert]

Hi there,

what is the recommended way to incorporate newer EDAC drivers from 2.6.30 or 
later into the long term 2.6.27.x series? Are there ongoing efforts already we 
could just re-use or does one "just" take the latest patchset and tries to 
apply it cleanly (enough) to the latest long term kernel?

Thanks a lot for any pointers/help

Cheers

Carsten 

Re: Backporting newer EDAC drivers to "stable" tree 2.6.27.x?

[Borislav Petkov]

[ Adding Doug to CC. ]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:06:00AM +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> what is the recommended way to incorporate newer EDAC drivers from 2.6.30 or 
> later into the long term 2.6.27.x series? Are there ongoing efforts already we 
> could just re-use or does one "just" take the latest patchset and tries to 
> apply it cleanly (enough) to the latest long term kernel?

I've made an AMD64 EDAC backport for RHEL5.4 but since they're using a
heavily patched 2.6.18, this'll be of little or no use for you so you
might just as well slap the driver into .27 sources and fix it up.

There also might be the need to adjust some EDAC core
stuff for which Doug has some patches at the svn repo at
http://bluesmoke.sourceforge.net/ but you'll have to do a bit of
digging yourself :).

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