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1. Kernel version for new drivers (Dushara Jayasinghe)

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Today's Topics:

1. Kernel version for new drivers (Dushara Jayasinghe)
2. Re: Kernel version for new drivers (Greg KH)
3. Re: Kernel version for new drivers (Dushara Jayasinghe)
4. Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge (Anil Nair)
5. Re: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge (valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu)
6. Re: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge
(Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen)

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Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 09:05:18 +1000
From: Dushara Jayasinghe <[email protected]>
Subject: Kernel version for new drivers
To: Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
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Hi all,

Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere. I'm working on a sama5d2 based device where the kernel supported by the hardware vendor is 4.4.
Any drivers we develop and test are based on this version of the kernel.
Do the kernel maintainers accept drivers for older (but maintained) versions of the kernel? Is there some general policy regarding this or is it a question that I need to ask the maintainer of the subsystem that the driver belongs to?

Thanks.

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 18:03:25 -0700
From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Kernel version for new drivers
To: Dushara Jayasinghe <[email protected]>
Cc: Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
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Quoted 7 lines · Dushara Jayasinghe

Hi all,
Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere. I'm working on a sama5d2 based device where the kernel supported by the hardware vendor is 4.4. Any drivers we develop and test are based on this version of the kernel. Do the kernel maintainers accept drivers for older (but maintained) versions of the kernel?

Nope, for the simple reason that we can't go back in time and add them to old releases :)

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Is there some general policy regarding this or is it a question that I need to ask the maintainer of the subsystem that the driver belongs to?

Have you read the stable_kernel_rules.txt file in the Documentation directory for what type of patch is allowed in the stable kernel releases? It should answer this question. Also look at the development_process/ "book" in the tree, that should help out.

In short, you always have to add new features to the latest development verison of the kernel.

hope this helps,

greg k-h

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Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:44:23 +1000
From: Dushara Jayasinghe <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Kernel version for new drivers
To: Greg KH <[email protected]>
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Quoted 5 lines · Greg KH

In short, you always have to add new features to the latest development verison of the kernel.
hope this helps,

It does. Thanks.

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 10:20:21 +0530
From: Anil Nair <[email protected]>
Subject: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge
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Hi All,

Is the following challenge working,

http://eudyptula-challenge.org/. I tried mailing little at eudyptula-challenge.org 2 to 3 times but there was no reply.

Other than the instructions mentioned in http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is there anything that i am missing?

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Regards,
Anil Nair

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 01:40:35 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Regarding The Eudyptula Challenge
To: Anil Nair <[email protected]>
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Quoted 2 lines · Anil Nair

Other than the instructions mentioned in
http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is there anything that i am missing?

You're missing the fact that the challenge has been overwhelmed by entrants,
and that it can take as much as a few weeks for them to get around to dealing
with your submission.
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 15:59:13 +0200
From: Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen <[email protected]>
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Quoted 8 lines · On 2 May 2017 at 07:40, <[email protected]> wrote:

Quoted 2 lines · Anil Nair
Other than the instructions mentioned in
http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is there anything that i am missing?
You're missing the fact that the challenge has been overwhelmed by entrants, and that it can take as much as a few weeks for them to get around to dealing with your submission.

Little also announced some time back that the challenge would be closed for new entrants after 20k entrants (at that point there were 19k), so it might be closed already?

But yeah, be patient, sometimes little is busy - but he'll get back to you eventually.

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答复: 1. Kernel version for new drivers (Dushara Jayasinghe)

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Hi all,

Thanks.

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Quoted 7 lines · Dushara Jayasinghe

Hi all,
Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere. I'm working on a sama5d2 based device where the kernel supported by the hardware vendor is 4.4. Any drivers we develop and test are based on this version of the kernel. Do the kernel maintainers accept drivers for older (but maintained) versions of the kernel?

Nope, for the simple reason that we can't go back in time and add them to old releases :)

Quoted 3 lines

Is there some general policy regarding this or is it a question that I need to ask the maintainer of the subsystem that the driver belongs to?

In short, you always have to add new features to the latest development verison of the kernel.

hope this helps,

greg k-h

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Quoted 5 lines · Greg KH

In short, you always have to add new features to the latest development verison of the kernel.
hope this helps,

It does. Thanks.

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Hi All,

Is the following challenge working,

http://eudyptula-challenge.org/. I tried mailing little at eudyptula-challenge.org 2 to 3 times but there was no reply.

Other than the instructions mentioned in http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is there anything that i am missing?

--
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Regards,
Anil Nair

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Quoted 2 lines · Anil Nair

Other than the instructions mentioned in
http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is there anything that i am missing?

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Quoted 8 lines · On 2 May 2017 at 07:40, <[email protected]> wrote:

Quoted 2 lines · Anil Nair
Other than the instructions mentioned in
http://eudyptula-challenge.org, is there anything that i am missing?
You're missing the fact that the challenge has been overwhelmed by entrants, and that it can take as much as a few weeks for them to get around to dealing with your submission.

Little also announced some time back that the challenge would be closed for new entrants after 20k entrants (at that point there were 19k), so it might be closed already?

But yeah, be patient, sometimes little is busy - but he'll get back to you eventually.

Quoted 6 lines

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