From 6fd497d9548fc93c72ab9bdb2e47b6af0f38a66f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Kubecek Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 18:09:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] misc: update README Fix a type and clarify the part about building against older kernels. --- README | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 3ee283e..5cc2460 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -12,12 +12,17 @@ a particular version of Player or Workstation. From these tags, branches "player-${version}" and "workstation-${version}" are forked. These branches track changes needed to build these modules -against recent kernel versions. Tag "p${ver}-k${ver}" marks the set of -changes needed to build modules from Player ${ver} against kernel ${ver}, +against recent kernel versions. Tag "p${ver}-k${kver}" marks the set of +changes needed to build modules from Player ${ver} against kernel ${kver}, e.g. p12.5.5-k4.11 is for Player 12.5.5 and kernel 4.11; similar naming scheme "w${ver}-k${kver}" is used for Workstation modules. In general, later points in the branch should also work with older kernels (e.g. -p12.5.5-k4.11 with kernel 4.10) but it's not completely reliable. +p12.5.5-k4.11 with kernel 4.10) but it's not guaranteed; it may happen that +a fix for new kernel version may be too complicated to make also work with +older versions. + +At the moment, changes are tested to build against all (vanilla) kernel +releases starting with 4.9. This repository is provided "as is" with no guarantees. Use the contents on your own risk.