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[next] batman-adv: Update compatible kernel version number

Message ID 1458474055-9857-1-git-send-email-sven@narfation.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Commit 15c5834a48efaca06d416c7a8d8496b142263b36
Delegated to: Marek Lindner
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Sven Eckelmann March 20, 2016, 11:40 a.m. UTC 
  batman-adv currently only builds against official kernels >= 3.2. Older
kernels (>= 2.6.29) have only incomplete compat(-include) support which
will not be extended anymore.

The next release will also share mostly the same code as kernel 4.6 and
thus by definition is compatible with Linux 4.6.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
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 README.external | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Marek Lindner March 28, 2016, 2:09 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Sunday, March 20, 2016 12:40:55 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> batman-adv currently only builds against official kernels >= 3.2. Older
> kernels (>= 2.6.29) have only incomplete compat(-include) support which
> will not be extended anymore.
> 
> The next release will also share mostly the same code as kernel 4.6 and
> thus by definition is compatible with Linux 4.6.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
> ---
>  README.external | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied in revision 15c5834.

Thanks,
Marek
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diff --git a/README.external b/README.external
index 833ece7..b89ce36 100644
--- a/README.external
+++ b/README.external
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@  and as external module. The external  module   allows   to    get
 new    features without  upgrading  to  a  newer  kernel  version
 and to get batman-adv specific bugfixes  for  kernels  that   are
 not   supported   anymore.  It compiles  against  and should work
-with Linux 2.6.29 -   4.5.  Supporting  older  versions  is  not
+with Linux 3.2 -   4.6.  Supporting   older   versions   is   not
 planned,  but it's probably easy to backport it. If you work on a
 backport, feel free to contact us.  :-)