On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:22:33AM +0200, jbem...@zonnet.nl wrote: > 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) > > The question I have is this: Why is the kernel version for brcm63xx set > to "3.0.18"? I suspect it just happened to be the kernel version that > seemed to be working at some point. > > 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 options in your .config and you'll start hitting issues. Latest is not always better :) I still find 2.6.32 the best! -- Otto > Thanks, > Jeroen > > Citeren Otto Solares Cabrera <so...@guug.org>: > >>> 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 mentioning the fact that they edited their Makefiles... >> >> Board platform and driver files/patches *depends* on a specific >> kernel version so kernel version configuration as you proposed >> would depend on luck for the users unless we provide the required >> patches for every kernel version. >> >> OTOH your idea could work if all boards supported by OpenWRT >> reside on the upstream kernel so we don't need to test and >> patch for every kernel release. >> -- >> Otto >> _______________________________________________ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >> https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
