Dear Javier,

Sorry for late reply, but thank you.

I also searched for many things on the net, read a lot of documentation, but 
it seems almost impossible thing to do... (That is shame, where is the power 
of linux? :) Just kidding )

Is there any way to do backporting ? For example, adding CIFS or USB WIFI 
support to my current kernel?

If so, what are the steps for it?

Best Regards

Sertac

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Javier Martinez Canillas" <redacted>
To: "Sertac TULLUK" <redacted>
Cc: "Harishkumar V" <redacted>; 
[off-list ref]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: New kernel for Chipbox

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Sertac TULLUK [off-list ref] 
wrote:

quoted

Dear Harishkumar;

I already know how to find the changes, please see my 1st e-mail below.

The problem is, those changes are more than thousands of lines of code, 
and
hundreds of files are added or modified.

I wonder, how can I apply those thousands of changes to new kernel source
quickly and easily?

The bad news is that there isn't a quickly and easily way to do it.
The kernel doesn't have an stable API (read
Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt) and the ARM part of the kernel
is one of the most fast changing lately. So probably most of the
drivers and SoC enablement platform code won't work with newer
kernels.

So, this isn't a trivial task.

Best regards,

-- 
Javier Mart?nez Canillas
(+34) 682 39 81 69
Barcelona, Spain

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