Hi, please don't top-post.
On 20 February 2017 at 20:03, Mauro Mozzarelli <open...@ezplanet.net> wrote: > Jonas, > > > There is in some cases where kernel drivers have changed. As you might see > in the ip_vs patch I posted, kernel drivers differ in Kernel 3 and 4 and > thus it is necessary to know which kernel I am building for to select the > appropriate kernel configuration. > > If the granularity requires to specify the patchlevel, and if LEDE had more > than one Kernel 3 patchlevel instead of just 3_18, then I would have to > specify all of them in my makefile. Not only that, but also I would have to > modify my makefile to include new Kernel 3 versions should they be added in > future to the LEDE build. But there is no significant 3.x vs 4.x difference. You might see a module that was introduced in 4.0 so it happens to look like a 3.19- vs 4.0+ (so 3.x vs 4.x) change, but that's just coincidence. It might have as well be introduced in 4.1, or in 3.19. So there really is no reason to treat the 3.19 => 4.0 switch differently. Jonas _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
