Re: [PATCH 00/14] backport: updates for 4.19

[Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>]

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On 09/20/2018 01:28 PM, Luca Coelho wrote:
> From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I finally found the time to go through the backports I had made for
> our internal tree and send them upstream.

Thank you for the patches. I had some comments, but in general they look
good.

> We've compile tested this on some old kernels, but the list is far
> from being comprehensive.
Which kernel versions do you support internally?

I tested this with some kernel versions and saw many problems with < 4.0
but I do not really care about them any more. The problems where mostly
not caused by these patches.

> Please review.
> 
> Cheers,
> Luca.
> 
> 
> Johannes Berg (1):
>   backports: improve skb->xmit_more handling
> 
> Luca Coelho (12):
>   backport: fix compilation with IPV6 not set
>   backport: introduce match_string() for kernels < 4.6
>   backport: add patch to ignore iwlwifi removal on < 3.14 kernels
>   backport: convert tree section names to ascii
>   backport: add rhashtable-types.h
>   backport: remove duplicate leds.h inclusion from backport-4.5.c
>   backport: prevent unused subclass variable warning in < 3.18
>   backport: make ktime_get_boottime_seconds() non-inline
>   backport: update u64_stats_init() to a new version in kernels < 4.2
>   backport: update lib-rhashtable.c
>   backport: convert int led activate op to void when needed
>   backports: add __alloc_bucket_spinlocks() for < 4.19
> 
> Shahar S Matityahu (1):
>   backports: add wait_event_killable_timeout backport support
> 
>  backport/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h   | 10 ++++++
>  backport/backport-include/linux/skbuff.h      |  9 ++++++
>  backport/backport-include/linux/spinlock.h    | 32 +++++++++++++++++++
>  backport/backport-include/linux/string.h      |  4 +++
>  backport/backport-include/linux/timekeeping.h |  5 +--
>  backport/backport-include/linux/wait.h        | 15 +++++++++
>  backport/compat/Kconfig                       |  1 +
>  backport/compat/Makefile                      |  1 +
>  backport/compat/backport-4.18.c               | 11 +++++++
>  backport/compat/backport-4.4.c                |  6 ++++
>  backport/compat/backport-4.5.c                |  1 -
>  backport/compat/backport-4.6.c                | 26 +++++++++++++++
>  devel/git-tracker.py                          |  2 ++
>  .../0059-skb_xmit_more/skb_no_xmit_more.cocci | 10 ++----
>  patches/iwlwifi-pci-device-removal.patch      | 24 ++++++++++++++
>  patches/led_activate.cocci                    | 24 ++++++++++++++
>  patches/lib-rhashtable.patch                  | 14 ++++++++
>  17 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 backport/compat/backport-4.18.c
>  create mode 100644 patches/iwlwifi-pci-device-removal.patch
>  create mode 100644 patches/led_activate.cocci
>  create mode 100644 patches/lib-rhashtable.patch
> 



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