Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:35595 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751035Ab2HIEie (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:38:34 -0400 Received: by weyx8 with SMTP id x8so20933wey.19 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:38:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1344481126-15702-1-git-send-email-andy@greyhouse.net> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 00:38:32 -0400 Message-ID: (sfid-20120809_063837_480379_4DAEA98B) Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: support RHEL6.3 as a build target From: Andy Gospodarek To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: lf_driver_backport@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Phil Perry Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Andy Gospodarek wrote: >> This patch allows me to compile and load the latest compat modules on >> RHEL6.3. Users of compat on RHEL6 should note that you should set >> CONFIG_COMPAT_KFIFO=n as those bits are not needed at all. >> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek > > Thanks! Any chance you can git fetch; git rebase; (ensuring you have > 42faf2dc8d8 at tip) and then try running: > > ./bin/get-compat-kernels > > This can take ~10 minutes > > And then test compile your changes with: > > ./bin/ckmake > > And provide that as part of your commit log message? I just did this and will post a v2 patch right now. > We can likely add > the RHEL kernels to the ./bin/get-compat-kernels if you can figure out > a way to unpack them for any user out there on any Linux distribution. > This way I can gate future patches from being merged unless they also > give me a good set of results from ckmake. > > Thoughts ? I like it. I'll look into the guts of these scripts a bit more and see what we can get added.