On 09/05/2017 11:00 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi Hauke, > >> This was build tested with kernel 3.18, 4.4 and 4.9. and runtime >> tested with iwlwifi on kernel 4.9. > > Cool. I have some patches to use it in LEDE, and tried it there with ath9k and ath10k, but hope to do some more testing. >> Are you planing to to releases in a tar? > > Not personally, no. I barely have time to do any maintenance here to > start with, and still haven't set up any infrastructure to allow others > to really help out significantly. > >> Which kernel versions are currently support by backports? > > I think we didn't really change anything, so should be 3.0+ I would prefer to drop everything < 3.10, or do not care about older kernel versions. For LEDE I am only interested in 3.18 or 4.4 and more recent. >> patches/0079-netdev-destructor.cocci takes very long to apply, about >> 3 times longer all others together. > > I doubt we can do anything about that. > >> Should we remove ssb and bcma from backports and use the in kernel >> versions instead? I do not expect so many changes any more affecting >> the wifi drivers. > > I have no opinion either way. When I find some time I will check how much problems with will cause for kernel >= 3.10. >> Is the compat wireless build server still being used? > > It's still *there*, but I haven't really used it in a long time. I was > planning to set up some kind of auto-builder but haven't gotten around > to it. > > johannes > How do we want to proceed with these patches? Hauke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
