Hey, I guess just a few days later it's time to announce it ... I've been working on a merge of compat/compat-drivers into a new backports tree. That by itself would be boring, so here's what I also did: * made driver copying variable As discussed a few days ago, I wanted this to be able to port only some drivers. To really achieve this without breaking all patches, I also had to - split patches and make applying them smarter - remove Makefile patches and mangle the Makefiles in a scripted way * added Kconfig support This allows users to better select which drivers they want, with their dependencies etc. To achieve this, it was necessary to also mangle the Kconfig files in some ways, but that's all scripted as well * separate output directory My new script writes in a new output directory, which helps separate the compat code creation step from the build step, and end users don't get burdened with the scripting needed for the creation. To be fair, I should say what I broke. I think the system should be generic enough to allow adding it back easily though. * graphics drivers -- I couldn't even get the patches to apply * ethernet drivers -- I just wasn't sure which ones were needed etc. * "crap"/staging/... patches * plain 'make' -- you now need to do 'make allyesconfig' or so first :-) * Redhat kernel backport support -- this should be fairly easy I'm hoping that the improvements I have are sufficient to get everyone to help out, and have the old compat/compat-drivers die ... :-) The code is available here (for now): http://git.sipsolutions.net/?p=backports.git;a=summary And in case you're wondering ... I got ckmake to build an "allyesconfig" (except for CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB which I forced off) against all kernels on Luis's build machine. This took forever, but I got this: 1 2.6.24 [ OK ] 2 2.6.25 [ OK ] 3 2.6.26 [ OK ] 4 2.6.27 [ OK ] 5 2.6.28 [ OK ] 6 2.6.29 [ OK ] 7 2.6.30 [ OK ] 8 2.6.31 [ OK ] 9 2.6.32 [ OK ] 10 2.6.33 [ OK ] 11 2.6.34 [ OK ] 12 2.6.35 [ OK ] 13 2.6.36 [ OK ] 14 2.6.37 [ OK ] 15 2.6.38 [ OK ] 16 2.6.39 [ OK ] 17 3.0.65 [ OK ] 18 3.1.10 [ OK ] 19 3.2.38 [ OK ] 20 3.3.8 [ OK ] 21 3.4.32 [ OK ] 22 3.5.7 [ OK ] 23 3.6.11 [ OK ] 24 3.7.9 [ OK ] 25 3.8.0 [ OK ] 26 3.9-rc1 [ OK ] johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
