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* Re: SKylake Edac support in linux 2.6.32.696 kernel build
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@ 2018-08-31 16:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2018-08-31 16:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nitin Gupta
  Cc: ldv-project, devel, Pavel Zemlyanoy, linux-kernel, linux-erofs

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 04:46:41PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I  started back porting  Skylake Edac driver from 4.8 kernel to 2.6.696
> kernel

Ick, why would you ever want to do that?  Just use a newer kernel
please.  If you really want to do this, you are on your own.

good luck!

greg k-h

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* Re: SKylake Edac support in linux 2.6.32.696 kernel build
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@ 2018-08-31 19:47     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2018-08-31 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nitin Gupta
  Cc: ldv-project, devel, Pavel Zemlyanoy, linux-kernel, linux-erofs

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:22:06PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> Hi Greg
> 
> Thanks for your comments  but somehow i cant use the latest kernel .

Why not?  What is not working properly for you?  It will be easier to
fix that than to work with a crazy half-backported mess that you will be
the sole person responsible for.

thanks,

greg k-h

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* Re: SKylake Edac support in linux 2.6.32.696 kernel build
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@ 2018-09-02 15:02         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2018-09-02 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nitin Gupta
  Cc: ldv-project, devel, Pavel Zemlyanoy, linux-kernel, linux-erofs

On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 03:45:01PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> Hi Greg
> 
> i am working on some project which is having huge changes and working
> on kernel-2.6.32-131.696
>  it will be very difficult to back port them into 4.8 .

Why 4.8?  That too is a totally unsupported kernel version.

Anyway, randomly pulling in a driver from a newer by many years, if not
almost a decade old (2.6.32 was released in 2009), is a very difficult
task, and usually almost impossible to go that far back.  That is not
how Linux is developed or meant to be worked with at all.

You are _really_ on your own here, only do this if you _really_ know
what you are doing.  Even then, I would not recommend you do this, as
you are guaranteeing to create a monstrosity that only you can support,
for forever, on your own.

good luck!

greg k-h

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