Thanks for your response Arend. Regards, Arun
-----Original Message----- From: Arend van Spriel [mailto:ar...@broadcom.com] Sent: 10 July 2015 18:57 To: Arunkumar K; backports@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Query regarding back porting of upstreamed Linux kernel drivers On 07/10/2015 01:22 PM, Arunkumar K wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following queries regarding back porting of up-streamed Linux > kernel driver: > > Suppose a new driver is added to Linux mainline in release 4.2, will the > developer who added new driver to the mainline need to submit the changes for > back porting to the backports git? > > Or will the backports project team be doing the back porting of the new > driver? Guess the one with most incentive will do it. > > From the following page > https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page > > "Current versions of backports support all mainline kernels starting with > version 3.0, for kernel versions older than 3.0 please use backports-3.14, > which supports all kernel versions back to 2.6.26." > > Suppose we have release backports-4.2 and new driver has been backported. > Will it have support only till kernel version 3.0. Suppose if the new driver > needs to be supported in version 2.6.32 what is the process followed? That is a problem that backports can not solve. So you could manually backport your new driver into the backport-3.14 tarball to minimize your effort. Regards, Arend > Regards, > Arun > > > > Member of the CSR plc group of companies. CSR plc registered in > England and Wales, registered number 4187346, registered office Churchill > House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, United > Kingdom More information can be found at www.csr.com. Keep up to date with > CSR on our technical blog, www.csr.com/blog, CSR people blog, > www.csr.com/people, YouTube, www.youtube.com/user/CSRplc, Facebook, > www.facebook.com/pages/CSR/191038434253534, or follow us on Twitter at > www.twitter.com/CSR_plc. > You can now access the wide range of products powered by aptX at > www.aptx.com > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" > in > To report this email as spam click https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/71ZG6X1WMXbGX2PQPOmvUqW!RI4xIDLrpnWLJ2TOncz1J54P8Pz2BYKVEZWF1MWbmXpsabQE6AvgE3KctAewCA== . -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
