On 05/20/2015 11:42 AM, Grumbach, Emmanuel wrote:
Good question... I don't know. OTOH, distros don't really support backport. You can't really blame them if they break backport, why should they care? I agree. It is annoying. We can try to convince them, but I don't think that saying "you are all wrong" is the right path. Maybe we should try to have them more involved in backport to fix it themselves? And explain to them how important it is to be able to run backport on top of all their shipped kernels?
Supporting backport would be a first step, but that won't help all of the rtl8* repos that I have at GitHub. Most of those do not have drivers in the kernel, thus the users are dependent on that kind of external repo; however, I do not have any desire to find out what macro needs to be tested so that these drivers will build on distros that I do not use.
I guess I should report a bug to whatever disto breaks my driver and request that they fix it. I already know how much that will help :)
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