[Drbd-dev] using new cocci config on older kernels

[Roland Kammerer]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:20:04AM -0600, David Butterfield wrote:
> In drbd-9.0/drbd, using the August 2 checkin "Prepare 10.0.0a1":
> I tried building with a few different kernel versions, using commands of the form (e.g.):
>     wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.4.113.tar.gz
>     ...
>     make clean; make -i KDIR=linux-3.4.113
> 
> First question is whether I should be expecting that to work all the way back to the
> expected DRBD limit of 2.6.32, or if the limit has (intentionally) been changed?

And FWIW, the "expected guarantee" was always for the RHEL(6) kernel with
its gazillion of patches and backports, never for that upstream version.

Regards, rck