Linux v3.3 is out, so we make kernel backport releases based on this release to allow you to compile subsystems / drivers from this kernel on older kernels. One kernel backport release is based on v3.3 vanilla [0], and another which cherry picks 14 patches from linux-next.git [1]. The linux-next-cherry-picks patches are just one of the type of extra categories of patches which the projects allows, for more details refer to the additional patches page [2]. For details on the changes that went into the kernel for the subsystem / drivers we include in this release please refer to the ChangeLog [3]. Details to compat and compat-wireless are provided below. Worth mentioning is we now have a documentation page for the compat module alone [4]. I've also dumped into a Google Fusion Table kernel backport statistics [5] which we can use to keep metrics across different releases. If anyone is interested in helping with these stats or creating visualizations please let me know, for now anyone can view the content. I'm still working on the columns, it seems there a few bugs still with Fusion Table but the prospects of using it are very nice. In particular I hope it can help organizations keep track of deltas not upstream, help categorize clearly and keep metrics of what is not even posted but needed (we call this crap), etc. There are also slides available now [6] that will be used to for the Linux Collaboration Summit talk on Automatically backporting the Linux kernel [7]. Hope the new set of documentation helps understand this process a little better. The 14 cherry picked patches: mcgrof@tux ~/devel/compat-wireless (git::linux-3.3.y)$ ls -1 linux-next-cherry-picks/ 0001-mac80211-Fix-incorrect-num_sta_ps-decrement-in-__sta.patch 0002-mac80211-Fix-incorrect-num_sta_ps-decrement-in-ap_st.patch 0003-mac80211-Move-num_sta_ps-counter-decrement-after-syn.patch 0004-ath9k-Initialize-NF-values-properly.patch 0005-ath9k-Fix-programming-SYNTH4-for-AR9462.patch 0006-ath9k-Fix-descriptor-length-for-AR9462.patch 0007-mac80211-handle-non-bufferable-MMPDUs-correctly.patch 0008-Revert-ath9k_hw-Fix-false-tx-hung-detection-in-AR900.patch 0009-ath9k-do-not-call-ath9k_hw_txprocdesc-on-AR9003-outs.patch 0010-ath9k_hw-enable-interrupts-for-beacon-tx-completion-.patch 0011-ath9k-fix-drv_tx_last_beacon-on-AR9003-by-processing.patch 0012-ath9k_hw-use-cold-instead-of-warm-reset-on-AR9280.patch 0013-mac80211-add-an-rx-flag-for-ignoring-a-packet-s-sign.patch 0014-ath9k-fix-signal-strength-reporting-issues.patch =============================================== ChangeLog for compat-wireless for linux-3.3 =============================================== This is the ChangeLog for the Linux kernel project compat-wireless. It provides a backport of a few Linux kernel subsystems down to older kernels: * 802.11 * Bluetooth * Ethernet For more details refer to the home page: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/ The compat-wireless project consists of code from three projects: * The Linux kernel: linux-2.6-allstable.git * Compat-wirelesS: compat-wireless.git * Compat: compat.git The compat-wireless stable releases incorporates code from from each of these git trees for the respective upstream Linux kernel stable release. A branch called linux-3.x.y exists for each stable release. Below we provide the ChangeLog of changes from the previous branched release to the new branched release. Release: linux-3.3 Updates from the compat.git project: ==================================== git shortlog linux-3.2.y..linux-3.3.y Felix Fietkau (3): compat: fix misplaced #ifdef for the workqueue backport compat: backport atomic64 support compat: fix security_sk_clone dummy backport compile Hauke Mehrtens (6): compat: add support for kernel 3.2 compat: backport kfree_rcu() compat: backport netdev_features_t compat: add config var for CORDIC and CRC8 compat: add module_usb_driver and module_platform_driver compat: add __cancel_delayed_work() John W. Linville (7): compat: use separate CONFIG_COMPAT_KFIFO option for building kfifo.o compat: add CONFIG_COMPAT_FIRMWARE_DATA_RW_NEEDS_FILP compat: check CONFIG_COMPAT_FIRMWARE_CLASS in compat-2.6.33.h compat: support RHEL6 as a build target compat: avoid warning in compat_system_workqueue_create compat: implement dummy security_sk_clone compat: use kconfig.h in compat-2.6.h for 3.1 and later kernels Luis R. Rodriguez (4): compat: fix building for 3.0 kernels compat: export compat kernel versions info compat: add .gitignore compat: add compat kernel checker and downloader Nikolay Martynov (1): Add dma_zalloc_coherent to fix build with kernels older than 3.2 Updates from the compat-wireless.git project: ============================================= git shortlog linux-3.2.y..linux-3.3.y Dominique Martinet (1): compat-wireless: build: Throw error if space in path Eliad Peller (1): compat-wireless: fix patches/08-rename-config-options.patch Hauke Mehrtens (17): compat-wireless: add support for kernel 3.2 compat-wireless: remove kfree_rcu() patch compat-wireless: make patches apply again compat-wireless: make patches apply again compat-wireless: escape & compat-wireless: add config var for CORDIC and CRC8 compat-wireless: remove some modules from Makefile compat-wireless: fix driver-select for intel compat-wireless: add some missing config options compat-wireless: fix brcm80211 driver-select compat-wireless deactivate mac80211 tracing for old kernels compat-wireless: compile fix for commit patches/09-threaded-irq.patch compat-wireless: remove platform_device_id for kernel < 2.6.30 compat-wireless: CONFIG_BT_L2CAP and CONFIG_BT_SCO removed compat-wireless: make patches apply again compat-wireless: use other workqueue compat-wireless: no trans_start on netdev_queue Johannes Berg (1): compat-wireless: disable SKB TX status stamping in mac80211 John W. Linville (9): compat-wireless: add CONFIG_COMPAT_KFIFO setting to config.mk compat-wireless: remove leading whitespace from CONFIG_COMPAT_FIRMWARE_CLASS compat-wireless: add CONFIG_COMPAT_BT_SOCK_CREATE_NEEDS_KERN compat-wireless: support RHEL6 as a build target compat-wireless: change CONFIG_IWLAGN -> CONFIG_IWLWIFI compat-wireless: fix patches/11-dev-pm-ops.patch compat-wireless: fix patches/38-led-max-brightness.patch compat-wireless: fix patches/39-remove_blink_set.patch Enable CONFIG_RT2800{PCI,USB}_RT53XX Luciano Coelho (1): compat-wireless: check if modprobe exists before using it Luis R. Rodriguez (22): compat-wireless: fix patches/08-rename-config-options.patch compat-wireless: refresh patches compat-wireless: refresh patches compat-wireless: fix patches/09-threaded-irq.patch compat-wireless: refresh patches compat-wireless: copy driver files only if present compat-wireless: clarify patches/47-no_trans_start_on_netdev_queue.patch compat-wireless: clarify patches/46-use_other_workqueue.patch compat-wireless: refresh patches compat-wireless: refresh patches for next-20120109 compat-wirless: refresh patches compat-wireless: refresh patches for 3.3-rc1 compat-wireless: use linux-stable instead of linux-2.6-allstable compat-wireless: fix patches/16-bluetooth.patch compat-wireless: refresh patches compat-wireless: add driver-select option ath9k_ap compat-wireless: fix allowing jobserver compat-wireless: add linux-next-cherry-picks for 3.3 recommended by nbd compat-wireless: refresh linux-next-cherry-picks patches compat-wireless: remove ath9k packet log crap compat-wireless: remove stale pending-stable ignore patch compat-wireless: refresh patches for v3.0 release [0] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.3/compat-wireless-3.3-1.tar.bz2 [1] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.3/compat-wireless-3.3-1-n.tar.bz2 [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/#Additional_patches_to_stable_releases [3] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.3/ChangeLog-3.3-wireless [4] http://mcgrof.github.com/compat/ [5] https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1wXnm0VFUHBpaMmxwjaZZD58B4o8K1iPFCCOx50Q [6] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1axVNEGwKZjnzG1ocdd289WMqPxzJ3qfMv70ghGcnUKc/edit [7] https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/rodriguez-backporting Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
