On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 11:53 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > 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. Maybe you could just use backports for those drivers? 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
