Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755277AbaDKHvq (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:51:46 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:15280 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750805AbaDKHvn (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:51:43 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,840,1389772800"; d="scan'208";a="23769985" Message-ID: <53479F0B.6070909@broadcom.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:51:39 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: Takashi Iwai , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Felix Fietkau , "backports@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jiri Slaby , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: Re: Bumping required kernels to 3.0 for Linux backports ? References: <53451077.2030102@openwrt.org> <20140409191225.GA10560@kroah.com> <20140409202224.GA12953@kroah.com> <20140409210613.GA14392@kroah.com> <5346CF27.3070406@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/04/14 20:56, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> Ok, I guess my voice was cracking when I mentioned 2.6.38 as being used over >> here. I am probably alone in that desert. > > I thought broadcom didn't use backports? If they do can you explain > how? Also what drivers do you need enabled for your use case ? That was 2 years ago when you asked me ;-) Since then I have been using it to backport the brcm80211 mainline drivers to 1) Android kernel, ie. 3.4 kernel, and 2) Fedora 19 which is actually fixed to 3.11 kernel. So we use backports these days for enabling brcm80211 drivers on various test equipment that uses older kernels. Regards, Arend -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/