Hi Johannes: Thanks for your help. And i am successfully port to linux 4.2. BR Chung-I On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 18:36 +0800, 吳重毅 wrote: >> Hi: >> I am confuse with backports' parameter. First i found the mail list >> of >> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2017-March/009458.html >> And i follow the attachment to patch backports' git. >> I am success full create the backports-output, but some parameters >> confused me. >> The parameter "--git-revision next-20170310". Is it says i am using >> tag next-20170310 of source linux-next? >> Currently my git of backports is point at master. >> When i use the command in maillist to generate backport-output. >> What target of kernel version am i going to backport to ? >> kernel of tag next-20170310(linux-next) to which kernel version? >> If my backports git is point at tag v4.4.2 and --git-version is point >> at v4.11. Can i say i am backporting from 4.11 to 4.4.2? > > --git-revision is for the kernel source you want to use. > > backports has its own tagging/branching, intended to match the *source* > kernel. > > the *target* kernel, the one you compile against, shouldn't matter at > all and support (roughly) 3.0-current. > > johannes -- Wu Chung-I -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
