On Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2016 08:57:28 CEST Sven Eckelmann wrote: > compat-includes/compat.h can usually be used to solve compatibility > problems with older kernels. This works well for functions, defines/enums > and sometimes even structures that were introduced. > > But this can fail when structs changed. Some of these can be solved in > crude ways but sometimes it is unavoidable to have a version specific code. > Unfortunately, this kind of code is not acceptable in the kernel and thus > the compat infrastructure of the external module has to do add it > automatically before the source is compiled. > > This process works by creating a build directory which is prefilled with > the source from net/batman-adv/. The patches from compat-patches/ will be > applied on top of this copy and then the code is compiled. > > Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org> > --- > v2: > - no change > --- > .gitignore | 10 ++++------ > Makefile | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > compat-patches/README | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ > compat-sources/Makefile | 6 +++--- > 4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 compat-patches/README
Applied in 66ac14a09445b6066de6a8ae4382d8f981466ae3 [1].
Kind regards,
Sven
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https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/66ac14a09445b6066de6a8ae4382d8f981466ae3
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