Hi Hauke To answer your questions. The compat-drivers I'm quoting is 3.7.6.1-stable and from the daily build tars (2.20.13). GCC version is 4.2.3 C-D compiles, but as noted with a tonne of warnings. We have several servers with specific purposes running 2.6.24 kernels and I decided to try a C-D on them. I guess the question now is, do we drop support for c-wireless/drivers for 2.6.24 - 2.6.29(?) and bump the minimum kernel to a 2.6.30? Walter ----- Original Message ----- From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Walter Goldens <goldenstranger@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx>; "backports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <backports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:45 PM Subject: Re: compat-wireless/drivers - slew of warnings and issues (older kernel) On 02/23/2013 11:41 AM, Walter Goldens wrote: > A recent (stable) compat-wireless/drivers compilation exhibited a great deal of warnings on an older kernel (2.6.24 to 2.6.30 I think). Is 2.6.24 still supported? What version of compat-drivers are you using? What version of gcc are your using? Some parts of compat-drivers are still compiling against kernel 2.6.24, but I would not recommend using a so old kernel. I haven't done run time testes with 2.6.24 for a long time. > Also, there was an issue with 50-compat_firmware.rules. Ubuntu 8.04 looks for it at /lib/udev/rules.d/ which gave me severe problems with firmware loading and system freezes. I had to copy/symlink 50-compat_firmware.rules from /lib/udev/rules.d/ to /etc/udev/rules.d/. Could you provide a patch for this, I do not have a ubuntu 8.04 installation any more, this is pretty old. > Warning log (partial). It compiles, but warnings galore. Is anyone up for backporting? > > CC [M] /drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.o > /include/net/cfg80211.h: In function ‘wiphy_name’: > /include/net/cfg80211.h:2676: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘dev_name’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type I do not get these warnings when compiling compat-drivers-3.8 against kernel 2.6.30. There are some other warnings with gcc 4.7 therefor I used "export KCFLAGS="-Wno-unused-but-set-variable"" with these old kernels, newer kernel versions already do this in the main Makefile. Hauke -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
