linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] backports: update dependencies map file

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Message-ID: <20141105222357.GU12953@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2014 23:23:58 +0100
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
	backports@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	yann.morin.1998@...e.fr, mmarek@...e.cz, sassmann@...nic.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] backports: update dependencies map file

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 10:20:01PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 21:13 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 08:54:11AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 19:18 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
> > > > 
> > > > During development of kernel integration support using CONFIG_BACKPORT
> > > > was evaluated as a prefix over CPTCFG even for packaging backports,
> > > > for some reason this change lifted some restrictions one some device
> > > > drivers which was present before and as such requires some changes to
> > > > the dependencies map file to ensure correct compilation for respective
> > > > kernel versions.
> > > 
> > > This is confusing ... I think what you're trying to say is that you
> > > noticed it because your integration system was broken and not honouring
> > > restrictions properly?
> > 
> > No I verified each reported case I got and verified the issues found
> > were valid. For some reason some of these drivers were not allowed to
> > compile on some older versions, and from what me and Hauke could tell
> > they should, but they weren't. So the new annotations on requirements
> > are valid.
> 
> Right, ok, it's just a roundabout way of describing that you audited the
> dependencies and found some unnecessary ones :-)

But I didn't do anything other than use a new prefix, and its not clear to
me why this happened, the only thing that comes to mind is perhaps the use
of the orig_symbols thing.

 Luis
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