Re: Possible to build-in backports modules into kernel

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On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 13:22 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 04/17/2015 01:03 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Johannes Berg
> > <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Technically this is not true any more - the backports gentree.py script
> >> now supports kernel integration where it copies the backport into
> >> another kernel tree :)
> >
> > Indeed:
> >
> > https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/integration
> 
> Just to clarify, the entire kernel will need to be built from some tree. In my 
> reading of the original post, I got the impression that Petr wanted to use a 
> pre-built kernel.

Yes, indeed, that's not possible - and doesn't really make sense anyway,
since if you have access to the kernel image and sources to build
against, you might as well rebuild the whole kernel.

johannes

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