linux-kernel - Re: SKylake Edac support in linux 2.6.32.696 kernel build

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Message-ID: <20180902150209.GA25883@kroah.com>
Date:   Sun, 2 Sep 2018 17:02:09 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Nitin Gupta <nitin.gupta981@...il.com>
Cc:     ldv-project@...uxtesting.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Pavel Zemlyanoy <zemlyanoy@...ras.ru>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: SKylake Edac support in linux 2.6.32.696 kernel build

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