Thank you all for the reply, I'll try openwrt to see how it works. Nick -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Gottschall [mailto:s.gottsch...@dd-wrt.com] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2018 5:35 AM To: Kalle Valo; Shu, Nick Cc: ath10k@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Backporting issues, please help
Am 09.08.2018 um 12:30 schrieb Kalle Valo: > "Shu, Nick" <nick....@spirent.com> writes: > >> I'm trying to backport ath10k driver from 4.9 kernel into 4.8 kernel >> currently using . >> In my 4.8 kernel, I built the backporting environment by using tag >> "v4.14-rc4-1". >> When I used that Python script to generate backport tree, got an error: >> >> ./gentree.py --verbose --clean --git-revision master --copy-list >> copy-list.ath ../linux-4.9 ../backports-output >> Get original source files from git ... >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "./gentree.py", line 1107, in <module> >> ret = _main() >> File "./gentree.py", line 724, in _main >> logwrite=logwrite) >> File "./gentree.py", line 862, in process >> disable_list = add_automatic_backports(args) >> File "./gentree.py", line 276, in add_automatic_backports >> automatic_backport_mangle_c_file(f)), 'r'): >> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: >> '../ct49-backports-output/compat/lib-refcount.c' > I haven't used backprorts for years but I don't think you can use latest > backports on older kernels (eg backports tag v4.14-rc4-1 on v4.9 > kernel). So if you use v4.14-rc4-1 tag you can only use v4.14 kernel > source to generate the backports package. > > But backports list can help you better: > > https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Mailing_list > > Ah, but I see from the archives that you asked there already. you can also use the backports tree from openwrt. as far as i know the official backports tree is broken on many points so you need to manually edit alot of things to get it to work. backports tree provided by openwrt did already take care of it i once did my own backports version and it was alot of work of manually editing to get all to work > _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
