[Buildroot] [PATCH/next 3/3] linux-headers: drop old unsupported 4.x versions

Bernd Kuhls bernd.kuhls at t-online.de
Sat Aug 25 07:21:29 UTC 2018


Am Fri, 24 Aug 2018 23:02:33 +0200 schrieb Thomas Petazzoni:

> I think it makes more sense to automatically select some *older* kernel
> headers. Indeed, if the user was using 4.10 kernel headers, presumably
> he is using some 4.10/4.11/4.12 kernel, so if we upgrade the kernel
> headers to 4.14... the new build may not work at runtime, the kernel
> headers being more recent than the running kernel.

Hi Thomas,

when preparing this patch I searched for previous removals of kernel 
versions for orientation on how to handle the legacy options and found 
this patch/commit by Peter where he upgraded the versions:

https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?
id=2a9b7b8a1ec0f200c6b82641512325284dee9a54

Regards, Bernd




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