On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 20:44 -0700, Tal Lubko wrote: > Hi Jeff > > > What does it mean that there is no correlation between out of the tree > driver versions and up stream kernel versions?
What Jeff Pieper was saying was that the in-kernel version of the igb, does not directly related to a out-of-tree version. So if you are using the in-kernel version x.x.x, there will not be a out-of-tree driver x.x.x. The point is that the out-of-tree driver is designed to install our latest driver on "most" older kernels because we include a kcompat layer to the out of tree driver to handle kernel API changes in older kernels. So while the version of the driver on e1000.sf.net is a different version from you in-kernel, the out-of-tree is what you want and will prevent a lot of headaches trying to backport a driver. > I guess that out of the tree driver versions won't compile against any > kernel header. Am I wrong? Yes, you are incorrect. The out-of-tree is designed to work with older kernels and distro's, specifically for the reason of getting older kernels running our newer driver with added hardware support. > If I take the latest igb version, will it compile against relatively > old kernels? Yes, just do not expect to run it on a 2.2 kernel or 2.4 kernel. Those kernels have been removed from our supported kernel lists. > Thanks again for your help, > > Tal > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > > From:"Pieper, Jeffrey E" <jeffrey.e.pie...@intel.com> > Date:Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 17:15 > Subject:RE: [E1000-devel] backporting of i210 driver > > There is no correlation between out-of-tree driver versions and > upstream kernel versions. You need to you the latest igb driver > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/igb%20stable/5.2.17/) .
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