Am 8. August 2016 10:35:47 GMT-07:00, schrieb "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>: >On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Peter Huewe <PeterHuewe@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I'm currently looking into the backports project to figure out how >hard it would be to add the tpm drivers. >> However unfortunately the gentree.py script fails, and I cannot >really explain why: >> >> ./gentree.py --clean --git-revision v4.0 /home/peter/linux-next/ >/home/peter/linux-4.0-backport >> Get original source files from git ... >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "./gentree.py", line 1091, in <module> >> ret = _main() >> File "./gentree.py", line 724, in _main >> logwrite=logwrite) >> File "./gentree.py", line 862, in process >> disable_list = add_automatic_backports(args) >> File "./gentree.py", line 276, in add_automatic_backports >> automatic_backport_mangle_c_file(f)), 'r'): >> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: >'/home/peter/linux-4.0-backport/compat/crypto-skcipher.c' > >If you are trying to use a target v4.0 kernel then you need to >checkout the linux-4.0.y branch from the backports tree as well. > >git checkout -b linux-4.0.y origin/linux-4.0.y > >And try again. Thanks, this was not clear to me. Should we add that to the wiki maybe? >But if you are trying to add new drivers, best is to just try the >master branch of backports against the latest respective linux-next >tag that backports works against, so in this case backports is at >backports-20160324, so you can set you linux-next tree to >next-20160324: > >git reset --hard next-20160324 > >This is because contributions would go to the master branch of >backports. About adding new drivers, if I make only a patch against the master branch, how do you then get support for older versions? E.g. 4.0.9? How does the maintenance work? (As I then would also sign up to do the maintenance of the tpm drivers in the backports) Thanks Peter -- Sent from my mobile -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
