On 12/22/2014 05:49 PM, Fujinaka, Todd wrote: > Chris, is there an lxr for the Ubuntu kernels or something similar? > We'd like to see which functions you're backporting in the various > versions. > > Thanks. >
There isn't an LXR, but our git trees are here: http://zinc.ubuntu.com/git The ubuntu/ubuntu-{trusty,utopic,vivid}.git are the trees that correspond to what is released in Ubuntu. The tags 'Ubuntu-X.YY.Z-ABI.BUILD' shows the release version. Thanks, --chris > Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Networking Division (ND) > Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com (503) 712-4565 > > -----Original Message----- From: Fujinaka, Todd > [mailto:todd.fujin...@intel.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 > 4:06 PM To: Allan, Bruce W; Chris J Arges Cc: > e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] > Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30 > > Never mind. I found 3.13.0-43 on 14.04LTS. > > Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Networking Division (ND) > Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com (503) 712-4565 > > -----Original Message----- From: Fujinaka, Todd Sent: Wednesday, > December 17, 2014 3:43 PM To: Fujinaka, Todd; Allan, Bruce W; Chris J > Arges Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: > [E1000-devel] [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu > 3.13.0-30 > > Chris, > > I'm looking into this right now, but I'm not sure how to get the > Ubuntu 3.13.0-30 kernel. Is it the default with 14.10? > > Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Networking Division (ND) > Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com (503) 712-4565 > > -----Original Message----- From: Fujinaka, Todd > [mailto:todd.fujin...@intel.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 8:32 > AM To: Allan, Bruce W; Chris J Arges Cc: > e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] > Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30 > > My big issue is that this will work for this one issue, but we have > issues with more than one of our drivers and increasing the > complexity of our kcompat by adding grep is not ideal. > > Bruce is probably better at figuring out whether UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE > is set in the right place for us. I'd much rather use that as that's > what we're using for Red Hat and SuSE. > > At the very least we need to hold off on this until we can discuss > this internally and we may not hold the critical meeting for this > until after the start of the year. > > Todd Fujinaka Software Application Engineer Networking Division (ND) > Intel Corporation todd.fujin...@intel.com (503) 712-4565 > > -----Original Message----- From: Allan, Bruce W Sent: Friday, > December 12, 2014 8:15 AM To: Chris J Arges; Fujinaka, Todd Cc: > e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] > Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30 > >> -----Original Message----- From: Chris J Arges >> [mailto:chris.j.ar...@canonical.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, >> 2014 6:35 PM To: Allan, Bruce W; Fujinaka, Todd Cc: >> e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] >> [PATCH] Issues with compiling ixgbevf-2.15.3 on Ubuntu 3.13.0-30 >> >> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> I'm not running Ubuntu, I'm looking at the 3.16.4-based >>>>> kernel source in our local LXR database reportedly from the >>>>> Ubuntu 14.10 linux-source package. IIRC, I ran 'make >>>>> modules_prepare' using the 14.10 kernel config file which is >>>>> supposed to generate the appropriate header files necessary >>>>> for compiling out-of-tree drivers, but the only thing in >>>>> ./include/generated/utsrelease.h is: >>>>> >>>>> #define UTS_RELEASE "3.16.4" >>>>> >>>>> How is it the stuff in /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname >>>>> -r`/include/generated/utsrelease.h is different? Is it >>>>> generated from a different config file or build scripts? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Sorry for the confusion. Yes, this particular identifier is >>>> generated in the Ubuntu distro linux packaging. >>> >>> So, are you saying the identifier will be found in a distro >>> release package (like a "linux-headers" package or something >>> similar) but *not* found in the Ubuntu linux-source-x.y.z package >>> even after doing some level of processing of the source in that >>> package? If that is the case, we will have to also load the >>> Ubuntu linux-headers-x.y.z-n package into our LXR database if we >>> want to be able to find the identifier to make Ubuntu-specific >>> changes to our driver code. >>> >> >> It's actually generated by the Linux Debian source packaging (for >> example in Ubuntu Trusty 3.13 kernel: >> http://zinc.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu- >> trusty.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk;hb=HEAD >> >> This generates the file that eventually is packaged in the built >> linux-headers* Debian package. So, if you install something like >> 'linux-headers-`uname -r`', this will contain the generated file. >> >> This all being said, the original patch I submitted actually >> _doesn't_ use UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE. It greps for the affected >> function names and defines a macro in order to ifdef the >> appropriate C code. So it should work without having to update any >> database. Let me know if that patch is acceptable. >> >> Thanks, --chris j arges > > I'll leave it up to the folks here at Intel who own/work on the > ixgbevf driver to decide what to do with your patch. I am more > interested in, going forward, how to properly code for > Ubuntu-specific back-ports. > > Thanks, Bruce. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! 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