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Automatic device driver back-porting with media_build

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Mason Dec. 17, 2015, 5:17 p.m. UTC 
On 17/12/2015 18:03, Mason wrote:

> On 17/12/2015 17:09, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 
>> As I said before, heavily patched Kernel. It seems that the network stack
>> was updated to some newer version. The media_build backport considers
>> only the upstream Kernels. In the specific case of 3.4, it is known
>> to build fine with Kernel linux-3.4.27. See:
>> 	http://hverkuil.home.xs4all.nl/logs/Wednesday.log
> 
> I don't think the network stack is different from vanilla...
> 
> I had a different idea:
> 
> The media_build process prints:
> 
> "Preparing to compile for kernel version 3.4.3913"
> 
> In fact, the custom kernel's Makefile contains:
> 
> VERSION = 3
> PATCHLEVEL = 4
> SUBLEVEL = 39
> EXTRAVERSION = 13
> NAME = Saber-toothed Squirrel
> 
> Is it possible that the build process gets confused by the EXTRAVERSION field?

Could this be the problem?
(Missing '.' between sublevel and extra)
Although with vanilla kernels, it will print 3.4.39. which is
probably wrong...


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diff --git a/v4l/Makefile b/v4l/Makefile
index 1542092004fa..9147a98639b7 100644
--- a/v4l/Makefile
+++ b/v4l/Makefile
@@ -233,9 +233,9 @@  ifneq ($(DIR),)
        -e '    elsif (/^EXTRAVERSION\s*=\s*(\S+)\n/){ $$extra=$$1; }' \
        -e '    elsif (/^KERNELSRC\s*:=\s*(\S.*)\n/ || /^MAKEARGS\s*:=\s*-C\s*(\S.*)\n/)' \
        -e '        { $$o=$$d; $$d=$$1; goto S; }' \
        -e '};' \
-       -e 'printf ("VERSION=%s\nPATCHLEVEL:=%s\nSUBLEVEL:=%s\nKERNELRELEASE:=%s.%s.%s%s\n",' \
+       -e 'printf ("VERSION=%s\nPATCHLEVEL:=%s\nSUBLEVEL:=%s\nKERNELRELEASE:=%s.%s.%s.%s\n",' \
        -e '    $$version,$$level,$$sublevel,$$version,$$level,$$sublevel,$$extra);' \
        -e 'print "OUTDIR:=$$o\n" if($$o);' \
        -e 'print "SRCDIR:=$$d\n";' > $(obj)/.version
        @cat .version|grep KERNELRELEASE:|sed s,'KERNELRELEASE:=','Forcing compiling to version ',