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| author | Chris Feyerchak <anonymous.contributor@example.org> | 2017-06-28 17:45:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> | 2024-10-04 15:47:34 -0400 |
| commit | 54fadd6d0938f06eab1a62b0d295783c81cd7534 (patch) | |
| tree | 655f37ecc37b8b4e583bd561037fe8cd8663465c | |
| parent | 434551f135dfbe9f05636e3da26e984cf38460b7 (diff) | |
| download | backports-54fadd6d0938f06eab1a62b0d295783c81cd7534.tar.gz | |
Format kernel integration benefits as list
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diff --git a/wiki/Documentation_integration.mediawiki b/wiki/Documentation_integration.mediawiki index ca59bf5..e2fe176 100644 --- a/wiki/Documentation_integration.mediawiki +++ b/wiki/Documentation_integration.mediawiki @@ -2,7 +2,16 @@ title: Documentation/integration --- -The backports project first started out by supporting making releases as [[Documentation/packaging|packaged tarballs]] whereby users can compile future versions of device drivers on older versions of Linux. As of tag backports-20141114 (first release branch will be based on origin/linux-3.19.y) backports supports '''kernel integration''' support, this allows to '''atomically''' '''integrate''' future versions of device drivers, apply required patches to backport them, add hooks into kconfig to make them visible and usable, as well as dealing with conflicts with older versions of these same drivers. By supporting kernel integration the backports project can now support enabling use of automatically backported subsystems and drivers on older kernels without requiring modules, everything can be '''built-in'''. +The backports project first started out by supporting making releases as [[Documentation/packaging|packaged tarballs]] whereby users can compile future versions of device drivers on older versions of Linux. As of tag backports-20141114 (first release branch will be based on origin/linux-3.19.y) backports supports '''kernel integration''' support. + +Kernel integration support allows you to: + +* '''atomically integrate''' future versions of device drivers +* apply required patches to backport them +* add hooks into kconfig to make them visible and usable +* deal with conflicts with older versions of these same drivers + +By supporting kernel integration, the backports project can now support enabling use of automatically backported subsystems and drivers on older kernels without requiring modules, everything can be '''built-in'''. <h2>Kernel integration summary</h2> |