[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8

Peter Seiderer ps.report at gmx.net
Thu Nov 12 19:30:28 UTC 2020


Hello Julien,

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:01:55 +0100, Julien Olivain <ju.o at free.fr> wrote:

> Attempting to compile this package with newer Kernel version (e.g. v5.4)
> fails with message:
>
>    Generating local configuration database from kernel ...Kernel version parse failed!
>
> Upgrading the package to 5.8 fixes this issue. Anyways, v4.4 is now
> rather old and beat the very purpose of having newer drivers in older
> kernels.
>
> Note that since backports tag v4.14-rc4-1, the requirement on minimal
> kernel version changed from 3.0 to 3.10. See commit [1].
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/backports/backports.git/commit/?id=a0d05f9f9ca50ea8b1d60726fac6b54167257e76
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o at free.fr>
> ---
> Changes v1 -> v2:
>   - Add a note about the change in minimal kernel version (3.0 -> 3.10).
> ---
>  package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash | 4 ++--
>  package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash
> index f39bc2ed27..0d60955b02 100644
> --- a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash
> +++ b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.hash
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -# From: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v4.4.2/sha256sums.asc
> -sha256  a979e194c2ed9fdfca092a448e626d85c5af0e4de5ad993c0967afd15af01285  backports-4.4.2-1.tar.xz
> +# From: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v5.8/sha256sums.asc
> +sha256  19b4174d89bf11ee221458e11f1e8dace26558498774b823051156f522d2036b  backports-5.8-1.tar.xz
>  # Locally computed
>  sha256  af8067302947c01fd9eee72befa54c7e3ef8a48fecde7fd71277f2290b2bf0f7  COPYING

	$ sha256sum backports-4.4.2-1/COPYING backports-5.8-1/COPYING
af8067302947c01fd9eee72befa54c7e3ef8a48fecde7fd71277f2290b2bf0f7  backports-4.4.2-1/COPYING
fb5a425bd3b3cd6071a3a9aff9909a859e7c1158d54d32e07658398cd67eb6a0  backports-5.8-1/COPYING


	$ cat backports-5.8-1/COPYING
The Linux Kernel is provided under:

	SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note

Being under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only,
according with:

	LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0

With an explicit syscall exception, as stated at:

	LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note

In addition, other licenses may also apply. Please see:

	Documentation/process/license-rules.rst

for more details.

All contributions to the Linux Kernel are subject to this COPYING file.


Seems the license info needs an update too...

Regards,
Peter


> diff --git a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk
> index 030d7a2864..7e725147dc 100644
> --- a/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk
> +++ b/package/linux-backports/linux-backports.mk
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>  #
>  ################################################################################
>
> -LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR = 4.4.2
> +LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR = 5.8
>  LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION = $(LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR)-1
>  LINUX_BACKPORTS_SOURCE = backports-$(LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION).tar.xz
>  LINUX_BACKPORTS_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v$(LINUX_BACKPORTS_VERSION_MAJOR)




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