From martinjonestechnology@googlemail.com Sat Sep 10 14:14:16 2011 Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com ([209.85.215.53]) by stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R2NNq-0000WM-5M for balloon@balloonboard.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:14:15 +0100 Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so1378743ewy.40 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:14:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rObFj62R5SdDH6TWfVz0QPp30p4cBQ2wddBxNjP5v1g=; b=rrNcv1wupisI9vHP4/UUG7vTIQoYuoYHz6OcAc5wwwMqfE1W+tURcTG2jONP48YRYt ji+iOPuDKN30otkcItf6/PzStucfBJ5q4P20UEVuXGkCWm1Y10M9ZSoXkNfnXJme77Sr Ct+RDkkRmhDAUutqgEsf3jCIgqlkEKX3VnmXc= Received: by 10.213.10.148 with SMTP id p20mr146132ebp.16.1315660444556; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (188-223-88-181.dsl.cnl.uk.net [188.223.88.181]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z54sm13144879eef.2.2011.09.10.06.14.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 10 Sep 2011 06:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Chris Jones Message-ID: <4E6B6298.7060603@martin-jones.com> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:14:00 +0100 From: Chris Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Balloon References: <4E6A826E.9060708@martin-jones.com> In-Reply-To: <4E6A826E.9060708@martin-jones.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 209.85.215.53 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: martinjonestechnology@googlemail.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=4.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:51:10 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk) Subject: Re: [Balloon] Updating old Balloon kernel patches X-BeenThere: balloon@balloonboard.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Balloon List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:14:16 -0000 On 09/09/2011 22:17, Chris Jones wrote: > My question: is it permissible or indeed advisable to make modifications > in the 1.0-stable branch with kernel 2.6.29.1, or somewhere else, or > somehow coax everything into menuconfig2 and a modern kernel? The > thought of getting the device drivers working with a different kernel > fills me with horror. There are enough variables in this project as it > is, and I don't want to spend any more late nights on it. I've gone ahead and put the changes into the 1.0-stable branch. This was the least-effort option for me. I'm still open to being convinced about porting them to a newer kernel version or build system. Chris -- Chris Jones - chris@martin-jones.com Martin-Jones Technology Ltd c/o Element Energy Ltd Twenty Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2JD, UK Phone +44 (0) 1223 655611 Fax +44 (0) 870 112 3908