[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/2] package/linux-backports: bump version to 5.8

Petr Vorel petr.vorel at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 19:07:17 UTC 2020


Hi Julien,

> 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.

> Since backports tag v4.14-rc4-1, the requirement on minimal kernel
> version changed from 3.0 to 3.10. See commit [1]. The minimal kernel
> version check is changed accordingly.

> License files are also updated: the linux backports package copies the
> license files from the kernel version used for its generation. v5.8 is now
> "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note".

> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/backports/backports.git/commit/?id=a0d05f9f9ca50ea8b1d60726fac6b54167257e76

Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com>

Thanks for your fixes!

Kind regards,
Petr



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