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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:50:17 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/libgpiod: bump version to 1.6
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Hello Michael,

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:06:33 +0100
Michael Nosthoff via buildroot <buildroot@busybox.net> wrote:

> -LIBGPIOD_VERSION = 1.4.1
> +# starting with 1.5 libgpiod depends on Headers >= 5.5
> +ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_5_5),y)
> +LIBGPIOD_VERSION = 1.6
> +else
> +LIBGPIOD_VERSION = 1.4.4
> +endif

Hum, this is a bit annoying. And upstream is not willing to have proper
conditional logic to keep supporting kernels older than 5.5 ? 5.5 is
not that old, it seems odd to so quickly drop support. Even 5.4 is the
current LTS kernel !

Thomas
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