Hi Cedric,
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 09:12:26PM +0000, Hombourger, Cedric wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> I will recheck tomorrow morning but the kernel I was initially working
> with was 4.19 and I did not find dtbs being compiled from a plain make
> or from builddeb
Oh, sure - I don't expect they'd get built either. I did think builddeb
would succeed without them though, but actually looking at history it
would still fail for v4.1 through v4.19 because although builddeb
checked for a dtbs_install target in the arch Makefile prior to the
commit I mentioned before, we used to have one in those versions...
So I'll mark your commit for backport as far as v4.1 where our
dtbs_install target was introduced.
The usual approach is that the patch goes into mainline first, and once
that happens you can submit your backports for the stable branches where
it doesn't apply cleanly. You should receive an email following the
failed attempts to cherry-pick the commit onto the stable branches,
which is often a good reminder to handle the backport.
(PS. Top posting is frowned upon pretty much universally in the kernel
communify - I'd recommend switching your email reply style before
it draws too much attention ;) )
Thanks,
Paul
