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Today's Topics:
1. Kernel version for new drivers (Dushara Jayasinghe)
2. Re: Kernel version for new drivers (Greg KH)
3. Re: Kernel version for new drivers (Dushara Jayasinghe)
4. Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge (Anil Nair)
5. Re: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge ([email protected])
6. Re: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge
(Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 09:05:18 +1000
From: Dushara Jayasinghe <[email protected]>
Subject: Kernel version for new drivers
To: [email protected]
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Hi all,
Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere. I'm working on a sama5d2 based
device where the kernel supported by the hardware vendor is 4.4.
Any drivers we develop and test are based on this version of the kernel.
Do the kernel maintainers accept drivers for older (but maintained) versions of
the kernel? Is there some general policy regarding this or is it a question
that I need to ask the maintainer of the subsystem that the driver belongs to?
Thanks.
DJ
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 18:03:25 -0700
From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Kernel version for new drivers
To: Dushara Jayasinghe <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 09:05:18AM +1000, Dushara Jayasinghe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere. I'm working on a sama5d2
> based device where the kernel supported by the hardware vendor is 4.4.
> Any drivers we develop and test are based on this version of the kernel.
> Do the kernel maintainers accept drivers for older (but maintained)
> versions of the kernel?
Nope, for the simple reason that we can't go back in time and add them to old
releases :)
> Is there some general policy regarding this or is it a question that I
> need to ask the maintainer of the subsystem that the driver belongs
> to?
Have you read the stable_kernel_rules.txt file in the Documentation directory
for what type of patch is allowed in the stable kernel releases? It should
answer this question. Also look at the development_process/ "book" in the tree,
that should help out.
In short, you always have to add new features to the latest development verison
of the kernel.
hope this helps,
greg k-h
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:44:23 +1000
From: Dushara Jayasinghe <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Kernel version for new drivers
To: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On 2/05/2017 11:03 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> In short, you always have to add new features to the latest
> development verison of the kernel.
>
> hope this helps,
>
It does. Thanks.
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 10:20:21 +0530
From: Anil Nair <[email protected]>
Subject: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge
To: kernelnewbies <[email protected]>
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Hi All,
Is the following challenge working,
http://eudyptula-challenge.org/. I tried mailing [email protected]
2 to 3 times but there was no reply.
Other than the instructions mentioned in http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is
there anything that i am missing?
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Regards,
Anil Nair
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 01:40:35 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge
To: Anil Nair <[email protected]>
Cc: kernelnewbies <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 02 May 2017 10:20:21 +0530, Anil Nair said:
> Other than the instructions mentioned in
> http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is there anything that i am missing?
You're missing the fact that the challenge has been overwhelmed by entrants,
and that it can take as much as a few weeks for them to get around to dealing
with your submission.
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 15:59:13 +0200
From: Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge
To: [email protected]
Cc: Anil Nair <[email protected]>, kernelnewbies
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On 2 May 2017 at 07:40, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, 02 May 2017 10:20:21 +0530, Anil Nair said:
> > Other than the instructions mentioned in
> > http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is there anything that i am missing?
>
> You're missing the fact that the challenge has been overwhelmed by entrants,
> and that it can take as much as a few weeks for them to get around to dealing
> with your submission.
Little also announced some time back that the challenge would be
closed for new entrants after 20k entrants (at that point there were
19k), so it might be closed already?
But yeah, be patient, sometimes little is busy - but he'll get back to
you eventually.
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