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...ink''' you '''may''' have found because you are working with the '''latest and greatest drivers'''! If your bug is backport compatibility-related then we ...ou think you my have found to the [[mailing_list|backports mailing list]] and if you know what subsystem you think the bug belongs to Cc: the respective

In order to backport the Linux kernel we must divide and conquer the tasks at hand. ...he framework that pulls code from the Linux kernel, adds the compat module and backports features that compat could not backport within its module / heade

Replace all "FOO" with "COMPAT_FOO" symbols in Kconfig and code files: ...y, mac80211/cfg80211/... Kconfig isn't copied. They will need to be copied and potentially modified for dependencies like WEXT.

...evice drivers of ''any'' subsystem, thereby enabling (2) ''both'' users '''and''' developers to always focus on upstream Linux kernel development. The project shall '''never''' include proprietary drivers, and is designed to disallow its use with proprietary drivers.

...orked and redefined. Some of the information in this page may be outdated and will be updated when the changes in the process are finalized.''' The project has a [[Documentation/backports/hacking/todo|To-Do List]] and a [[License]].

Other simpler solutions are to rely on 'lspci -k' output and map this to respective device drivers but this solution would be PCI bus sp We should review how the upstream ''make localmodconfig'' currently works and improve upon that to enable support for it on backports.

... 2011 Linux Plumbers presentation on automatically backporting the kernel] and its [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1axVNEGwKZjnzG1ocdd289WMqPxzJ3q ... <b>upstream</b> on the Linux kernel and provide deliverables to end users and customers for <b>any</b> target kernel.

...rivers allows us to make releases of code from newer Linux kernel releases and get the latest drivers to users without having to recompile their entire ke ...ackporting further and it does support a large amount of older unsupported and deprecated Linux kernel releases. As it is right now all 21 older kernels a

...one reason or another. At times, a subsystem maintainer may be on vacation and stable fix patches may take a while to get to users. In the worst case scen * -s - get and apply pending-stable/ from linux-next.git

This section deals with development details of compat / compat-drivers and the other trees it uses. If you want to make your own compat-drivers tarbal ...ms down to older kernels. To be able to synchronize backporting the latest and greatest the [http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git

* add hooks into kconfig to make them visible and usable ...roject can now support enabling use of automatically backported subsystems and drivers on older kernels without requiring modules, everything can be '''bu

...ans device drivers from the Linux v3.x release have been taken, backported and made available for you to use on any kernel version prior to the release ve # reboot and enjoy

...on to ask a question in IRC, just ask it with all the information you have and wait for someone answering.

Copyright practice. Some files have their own copyright and in those <h2>Backporting preference for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() and proprietary drivers</h2>

...nd an e-mail to ''majordomo@vger.kernel.org'' with anything on the subject and with this on the body of the e-mail:

....youtube.com/watch?v=buZrNd6XkEw An Introduction to Coccinelle Bug Finding and Code Evolution for the Linux Kernel - Julia Lawall] (1 hour 58 minutes) ** LinuxCon and CloudOpen Conference, New Orleans, October 2013

All these releases should work against the same kernel major version and all older versions till 3.10 for backports versions till 5.10. Later versio