From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757619AbZHQKhu (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:37:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757389AbZHQKht (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:37:49 -0400 Received: from sg2ehsobe004.messaging.microsoft.com ([207.46.51.78]:30965 "EHLO SG2EHSOBE004.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757351AbZHQKhs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:37:48 -0400 X-SpamScore: -23 X-BigFish: VPS-23(z21eWz98dN936eMzz1202hzzz32i203h6bh43j61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-WSS-ID: 0KOIO63-04-A4E-01 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:37:15 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Carsten Aulbert CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Doug Thompson Subject: Re: Backporting newer EDAC drivers to "stable" tree 2.6.27.x? Message-ID: <20090817103715.GC3677@aftab> References: <200908171106.00973.carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908171106.00973.carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Aug 2009 10:37:15.0143 (UTC) FILETIME=[AFC21170:01CA1F26] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ 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 :). -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Operating | Advanced Micro Devices GmbH System | Karl-Hammerschmidt-Str. 34, 85609 Dornach b. München, Germany Research | Geschäftsführer: Thomas M. McCoy, Giuliano Meroni Center | Sitz: Dornach, Gemeinde Aschheim, Landkreis München (OSRC) | Registergericht München, HRB Nr. 43632