Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-18 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi, Le 04/18/12 07:22, jbem...@zonnet.nl a écrit : Many architectures already have the patches for the various kernel versions ( e.g. patches-3.0, patches-3.1, patches-3.3 ). This is why I all I had to do was change the kernel version from 3.0.18 to 3.3.2 for my brcm63xx target (I first did

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 00:41 -0600, Otto Solares Cabrera wrote: When was it last updated? Will it ever be updated again? Who decides? Well, you better take a visit to the bug tracking manager, for a small un-important feature set (like mine) a kernel upgrade normally works fine, increase the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-18 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi, Le 04/18/12 15:20, David Woodhouse a écrit : On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 00:41 -0600, Otto Solares Cabrera wrote: When was it last updated? Will it ever be updated again? Who decides? Well, you better take a visit to the bug tracking manager, for a small un-important feature set (like mine) a

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-17 Thread Otto Solares Cabrera
Regarding the problem of users playing with config options and not mentioning it, part of the solution could be to require users to submit their .config files when reporting issues. In such a case, having the kernel version in there too would actually be better than relying on users

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-17 Thread jbemmel
Many architectures already have the patches for the various kernel versions ( e.g. patches-3.0, patches-3.1, patches-3.3 ). This is why I all I had to do was change the kernel version from 3.0.18 to 3.3.2 for my brcm63xx target (I first did 3.3.1, but then found that 3.3.2 was the latest)

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-16 Thread Peter Laufenberg
You seem to have a very stance; is this even up for discusion or will it come down to a principled over my dead body? :) On 2012-04-14 9:37 PM, Jeroen van Bemmel wrote: The Linux kernel version is an important configuration aspect still missing from menuconfig. It should be possible to have

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-16 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Compiling anything is for developers. Whatever helps is a Good Thing; nobody expects the holy grail. Adding a version symbol the way it was proposed in the patch does not help, it increases our maintenance burden and implies that changing the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-16 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2012-04-16 7:29 PM, Peter Laufenberg wrote: You seem to have a very stance; is this even up for discusion or will it come down to a principled over my dead body? :) I'm still waiting for somebody to demonstrate to me that this is actually useful in a *meaningful* way. So far (to me) the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-16 Thread Jeroen van Bemmel
Felix, Regarding the problem of users playing with config options and not mentioning it, part of the solution could be to require users to submit their .config files when reporting issues. In such a case, having the kernel version in there too would actually be better than relying on users

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-16 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2012-04-16 10:23 PM, Jeroen van Bemmel wrote: Felix, Regarding the problem of users playing with config options and not mentioning it, part of the solution could be to require users to submit their .config files when reporting issues. In such a case, having the kernel version in there

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-14 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2012-04-13 9:01 PM, Jeroen van Bemmel wrote: A grep for LINUX_VERSION in target/linux/*/Makefile shows that OpenWRT current uses a large number of different kernel versions for the various platforms. While there may be reasons for using a particular version, it would be nice if newer

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-14 Thread Jeroen van Bemmel
The Linux kernel version is an important configuration aspect still missing from menuconfig. It should be possible to have the full config in a single .config file; Makefiles are the wrong place for setting this parameter. I agree it would be uncommon to change this, that's why it is a developer

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-14 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2012-04-14 9:37 PM, Jeroen van Bemmel wrote: The Linux kernel version is an important configuration aspect still missing from menuconfig. It should be possible to have the full config in a single .config file; Makefiles are the wrong place for setting this parameter. I agree it would be

[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Make kernel version configurable for developers

2012-04-13 Thread Jeroen van Bemmel
A grep for LINUX_VERSION in target/linux/*/Makefile shows that OpenWRT current uses a large number of different kernel versions for the various platforms. While there may be reasons for using a particular version, it would be nice if newer kernels were available for those platforms that