Hi,
On 2020-01-25 2:17 p.m., Sven Eckelmann wrote:
I am personally not really happy about supporting all kind of weird Linux kernel forks.
No worries. Just saw that there are some provisions for Debian (which I guess is what some of the maintainers are using) in the code. But I do see that all the Ubuntu specific stuff that backports has isn't in there either.
Anyway, if you really want to maintain the RHEL support (for reasonable versions which are based on reasonable new upstream kernels) then I would propose to avoid this RHEL_81. Instead it might be better to just add RHEL_RELEASE_VERSION + RHEL_RELEASE_CODE [1] to compat-include/linux/version.h. And then just use them like the backports.git is using them [2].
I'm not interested in maintaining this upstream indefinitely and I agree with you that carrying around fixes for all kinds of weird quirks is a burden on maintainers.
I'm happy to just carry this patch in my DKMS RPM packages I maintain for batman-adv.
Regards, Felix