Now that work is under way to incorporate B.A.T.M.A.N (batman-adv) into the mainline Linux kernel, hopefully 2.6.33, will older kernels be abandoned?
I have some embedded systems that are on 2.6.30.10 and running fine, and I really don't want to have to put in a new kernel and recertify the software just to get some improvements to B.A.T.M.A.N.
Is there any consideration to doing something similar to compat-wireless but for B.A.T.M.A.N (batman-adv) instead?
Gus
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:29:46PM -0800, Gus Wirth wrote:
Now that work is under way to incorporate B.A.T.M.A.N (batman-adv) into the mainline Linux kernel, hopefully 2.6.33, will older kernels be abandoned?
I have some embedded systems that are on 2.6.30.10 and running fine, and I really don't want to have to put in a new kernel and recertify the software just to get some improvements to B.A.T.M.A.N.
Is there any consideration to doing something similar to compat-wireless but for B.A.T.M.A.N (batman-adv) instead?
Older kernels are still supported. The development work is being performed in subversion. This tree has all the backwards compatibility code which allows it be compiled on some older kernels, currently 2.6.20 - 2.6.32.
I then take the code out of subversion and put it into git. The git repository has all this backwards compatibility removed in order that i can make clean patches for this development work for submission to mainline in 2.6.34.
Andrew
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