On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:21:36AM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 7/13/2017 5:07 AM, AceLan Kao wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm working on adding BT driver back to linux backport driver, and got > > some questions. > > I suppose it means you also want to maintain BT support in backports > project? Which has me thinking perhaps the policy we need is a MAINTAINERS.backport file or something? > > 1. Do we still do building the backport driver against all the > > supported kernels? I didn't see those reports in git log recently, so > > I'm wondering while backporting BT driver, can I skip some old > > kernels' support. > > Well. You could limit the earliest kernel by adding a dependency in the > dependencies file. > > > 2. Is there a script that can help me to build the backport driver > > against certain kernels? > > Not really. You just run make from the backports package and provide > KLIB_BUILD=... on the command line referring to the target kernel headers. There is documentation: https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/backports/hacking#Adding_new_driver I updated it recently as I demo'd adding yet-another new subsystem (not upstream, nor patches posted). Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
