On Tue 2017-06-27 13:08:14 +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > compat.h is a dumpster fire already. Tons of people use the RHEL kernel. > I think supporting it won't make an already gross cess pool any more > disgusting. It's a file of hacks; I might as well add another. > > (I probably won't add hacks, though, for the heaps of random custom > Android vendor kernels.)
sorry to dredge this thread back up from the archives... https://bugs.debian.org/894909 shows someone trying to build wireguard against the debian 8 ("jessie" aka "oldstable") 3.16 kernel saying that they needed a similar patch to make the kernel module build. I know that debian's kernel team does backport a lot of fixes to our supported older kernels, similar to older releases of RedHat. i'm asking over on #debian-kernel (on OFTC) to see whether there is some similar to RHEL_MAJOR or CONFIG_SUSE_KERNEL or UTS_UBUNTU_RELEASE_ABI that we can use for jessie. --dkg