SKylake Edac support in linux 2.6.32.696 kernel build

[Nitin Gupta]

Hi Greg

found that  Skylake driver for EDAC is supported on 4.8 .

Regards
Nitin

On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 8:32 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 03:45:01PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> > Hi Greg
> >
> > i am working on some project which is having huge changes and working
> > on kernel-2.6.32-131.696
> >  it will be very difficult to back port them into 4.8 .
>
> Why 4.8?  That too is a totally unsupported kernel version.
>
> Anyway, randomly pulling in a driver from a newer by many years, if not
> almost a decade old (2.6.32 was released in 2009), is a very difficult
> task, and usually almost impossible to go that far back.  That is not
> how Linux is developed or meant to be worked with at all.
>
> You are _really_ on your own here, only do this if you _really_ know
> what you are doing.  Even then, I would not recommend you do this, as
> you are guaranteeing to create a monstrosity that only you can support,
> for forever, on your own.
>
> good luck!
>
> greg k-h
>
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