"Shu, Nick" <nick....@spirent.com> writes:

> I'm trying to backport ath10k driver from 4.9 kernel into 4.8 kernel 
> currently using .
> In my 4.8 kernel, I built the backporting environment by using tag 
> "v4.14-rc4-1".
> When I used that Python script to generate backport tree, got an error:
>
> ./gentree.py --verbose --clean --git-revision master --copy-list 
> copy-list.ath ../linux-4.9 ../backports-output
> Get original source files from git ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./gentree.py", line 1107, in <module>
>     ret = _main()
>   File "./gentree.py", line 724, in _main
>     logwrite=logwrite)
>   File "./gentree.py", line 862, in process
>     disable_list = add_automatic_backports(args)
>   File "./gentree.py", line 276, in add_automatic_backports
>     automatic_backport_mangle_c_file(f)), 'r'):
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
> '../ct49-backports-output/compat/lib-refcount.c'

I haven't used backprorts for years but I don't think you can use latest
backports on older kernels (eg backports tag v4.14-rc4-1 on v4.9
kernel). So if you use v4.14-rc4-1 tag you can only use v4.14 kernel
source to generate the backports package.

But backports list can help you better:

https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Mailing_list

Ah, but I see from the archives that you asked there already.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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