Re: compat-driver doesn't compile

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RESOLVED!!!

downloaded compat-drivers-3.9-rc1-3.tar.bz2, compiled, modprobe
ar5523, and.... WLAN0!!!!

Thanks you very very very much

2013/3/9 Manu <vbmanu@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>I don't expect you to be an expert, and supporting RasberryPi's kernel
>>seems like a worthwhile effort to support, so I'd gladly accept
>>patches for whoever wants to support that if the kernel can be
>>identified somehow.
>
> I hope it's will be usefull
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux
>
> 2013/3/9 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Manu <vbmanu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>      >      | What kernel are you on?
>>>>      >      |
>>>>      >      | uname -r
>>>>      >
>>>>      > 3.6.11+
>>>
>>>>      What is this + postfix here ? What distribution are you running? Is
>>>>      this a vanilla kernel from kernel.org or some modified Linux
>>>>      distribution kernel? When distributions decide they want to
>>>>      incorporate some behavior from future kernels into older kernels they
>>>>      break proper kernel backport detection / support and this requires
>>>>      manual intervention on compat / compat-drivers. So for example RHEL
>>>>      and SUSE kernels are supported on compat / compat-drivers. Other than
>>>>      that we support vanilla kernels. The better you describe where your
>>>>      kernel came from the better we are able to provide support. Also
>>>>      please note that every single compat-drivers release come already
>>>>      compile tested against all supported kernels: 2.6.24 - 3.9, so hearing
>>>>      a compile issue is odd. One other possibility on a compile issue other
>>>>      than a custom distro hacked kernel is a different kernel
>>>>      configuration. Right now we use a basic desktop type like kernel
>>>>      configuration for our tests.
>>>
>>> I'm running Gentoo/arm on RaspberryPi Kernel. I'm not an expert, but I
>>> think the error depends on PCI missing on arm architecture.
>>
>> I don't expect you to be an expert, and supporting RasberryPi's kernel
>> seems like a worthwhile effort to support, so I'd gladly accept
>> patches for whoever wants to support that if the kernel can be
>> identified somehow.
>>
>>   Luis
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