batman-adv currently only builds against official kernels >= 3.2. Older kernels (>= 2.6.29) have only incomplete compat(-include) support which will not be extended anymore.
The next release will also share mostly the same code as kernel 4.6 and thus by definition is compatible with Linux 4.6.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- README.external | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README.external b/README.external index 833ece7..b89ce36 100644 --- a/README.external +++ b/README.external @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ and as external module. The external module allows to get new features without upgrading to a newer kernel version and to get batman-adv specific bugfixes for kernels that are not supported anymore. It compiles against and should work -with Linux 2.6.29 - 4.5. Supporting older versions is not +with Linux 3.2 - 4.6. Supporting older versions is not planned, but it's probably easy to backport it. If you work on a backport, feel free to contact us. :-)