Message-ID: <1415222401.7485.13.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] backports: update dependencies map file
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>, backports@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yann.morin.1998@free.fr, mmarek@suse.cz,
        sassmann@kpanic.de
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:20:01 +0100
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On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 21:13 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 08:54:11AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 19:18 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
> > > 
> > > During development of kernel integration support using CONFIG_BACKPORT
> > > was evaluated as a prefix over CPTCFG even for packaging backports,
> > > for some reason this change lifted some restrictions one some device
> > > drivers which was present before and as such requires some changes to
> > > the dependencies map file to ensure correct compilation for respective
> > > kernel versions.
> > 
> > This is confusing ... I think what you're trying to say is that you
> > noticed it because your integration system was broken and not honouring
> > restrictions properly?
> 
> No I verified each reported case I got and verified the issues found
> were valid. For some reason some of these drivers were not allowed to
> compile on some older versions, and from what me and Hauke could tell
> they should, but they weren't. So the new annotations on requirements
> are valid.

Right, ok, it's just a roundabout way of describing that you audited the
dependencies and found some unnecessary ones :-)

johannes

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