From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]:43468 "EHLO mail2.candelatech.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728123AbeGPUpy (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2018 16:45:54 -0400 Subject: Re: What distro can run recent backports? To: Johannes Berg , backports@vger.kernel.org References: <1ea772b3-612a-aa1e-8088-069864dc0920@candelatech.com> <1531770284.3265.0.camel@sipsolutions.net> From: Ben Greear Message-ID: <2823e04b-0434-42eb-12be-4e7a8e2d35b8@candelatech.com> (sfid-20180716_221657_132797_5B3F9974) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:16:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1531770284.3265.0.camel@sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/16/2018 12:44 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 10:49 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to make backports work with my 4.16-ct kernel. I tried Fedora-27, but it has >> some bug relate to spatch so it cannot run there. > > I think it's an upstream spatch bug. You could use an older version and > revert the recent genl_const patch. > > I'm on F27 but haven't gotten it to work recently (and am out for the > next ~4 weeks) > > johannes Thanks, I did try reverting the patch, and that got me farther, and after more hacking on some incompatible patches and some Kconfig issues, I got it to start building, and then it blew up all over the place. This patch is part of what I used, by the way: https://www.spinics.net/lists/backports/msg04115.html It seems like a fragile house of cards, and I think maybe I should just go back to manually copying files around and then fixing the incompatibilities. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in