Some help about backporting a nic module to 2.6.32 longterm
From: Greg KH <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-10 01:30:27
A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:08:18PM -0200, Andr? Ferraz wrote:
Hi Greg, the problem is that i need to stay with the 2.6.32 grsec patchset for my servers, if i didn't have any dependencies like that sure i'll be using the 3.2 kernel.
Why are you using grsec? Why has it not been updated in the many years since 2.6.32 was released?
The idea is to just backport this device driver, the rest of the drivers works pretty well, but i didnt find any HowTo or some documentation specific to the process of update a driver on your kernel source.
Just backporting a single driver, usually isn't that easy, as it relies on other parts of the kernel. The kernel is ment to be used as a "whole" release, picking and choosing is very tough at times, and you will be on your own. I don't recommend it at all. good luck, greg k-h