* [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH next] batman-adv: Update compatible kernel version number
@ 2016-03-20 11:40 Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-28 14:09 ` Marek Lindner
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From: Sven Eckelmann @ 2016-03-20 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: b.a.t.m.a.n
batman-adv currently only builds against official kernels >= 3.2. Older
kernels (>= 2.6.29) have only incomplete compat(-include) support which
will not be extended anymore.
The next release will also share mostly the same code as kernel 4.6 and
thus by definition is compatible with Linux 4.6.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
---
README.external | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README.external b/README.external
index 833ece7..b89ce36 100644
--- a/README.external
+++ b/README.external
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ and as external module. The external module allows to get
new features without upgrading to a newer kernel version
and to get batman-adv specific bugfixes for kernels that are
not supported anymore. It compiles against and should work
-with Linux 2.6.29 - 4.5. Supporting older versions is not
+with Linux 3.2 - 4.6. Supporting older versions is not
planned, but it's probably easy to backport it. If you work on a
backport, feel free to contact us. :-)
--
2.8.0.rc3
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