2017-07-14 1:28 GMT+08:00 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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? Yes, I'm willing to maintain bt subsystem. > >> > 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. >> got it, will try to run ckmake to check how far I can do >> > 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). Thanks, I'll check the steps carefully to make sure I didn't missing anything. > > Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
