Re: Linux 4.4.256

Guenter Roeck
2021-02-08T17:16:02Z

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 09:22:44AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
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> > There are lots (35) of "KERNEL_VERSION(4, 5, 0)" in chromeos-4.4.
> > That should not matter with the clamped LINUX_VERSION_CODE, but
> > I'd prefer to clamp KERNEL_VERSION as well just to be sure. On
> > top of that, some of the vendor code we carry along does check
> > SUBVERSION, but that is probably more of an academic concern.
>
> Ah, the internal checks, I think the other patch by Sasha will let that
> get bigger and should work for you as well. Can you try it out?
>
Quite frankly I like the "complete" fix much better, but then I dislike
deviating from stable releases even more. I'll use Sasha's version.

Thanks,
Guenter