The 2.6.33-rc4 and 2.6.32.3 kernels came out a few days ago, along with it comes the respective 2.6.33-rc4 [1] and 2.6.32.3 [2] compat-wireless releases [3]. As noted previously the compat-wireless-2.6.33 releases now also have bluetooth backported for kernels >= 2.6.27. A few release notes: * compat.git - generic kernel compatibility package. This is currently used on bleeding edge compat-wireless and the 2.6.33 compat-wireless releases. Other external drivers are welcomed to take advantage of this though. - gets pm-qos for kernels down to 2.6.23 - gets the new 2.6.33 firmware_class backported for older kernels which allows usage of drivers with thew new request_firmware_nowait(). Users of this for 802.11 right now are ar9170. This actually goes only compile tested, please let me know if this worked. * compat-wireless-2.6.32.3: - now goes all the way down to 2.6.23 for ath5k and ath9k, should be easy to test/enable others - gets pm-qos backport as well * compat-wireless-2.6.33-rc4: - The new debugfs_remove_recursive(), added as of 2.6.26 but used on 802.11 only until 2.6.32-rc4 on both mac80211 and cfg80211 cannot be backported as it relies on two static variables on fs/debugfs/inode.c, to enable backporting for older kernels than 2.6.26 we'll need to relabel CONFIG_CFG80211_DEBUGFS and CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS and disable them for older kernels. Due to the new multiqueue patch we only support kernels >= 2.6.27 on bleeding edge compat-wireless. This patch is due to go into stable down to 2.6.32 so both next releases 2.6.32.4 and 2.6.32-rc5 are expected to have this and as such will have backporting disabled for older kernels as well until we figure out how to properly backport this. The compat-wireless 2.6.32.3 release causes this harmless warning on older kernels < 2.6.24, it can safely be ingored, I see no way of avoiding it. CC [M] /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/net/rfkill/input.o In file included from /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/net/rfkill/input.c:16: include/linux/input.h:933:1: warning: "BIT" redefined In file included from include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h:11, from include/asm/cpufeature.h:10, from include/asm/alternative.h:43, from include/asm/atomic.h:4, from /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/include/net/compat-2.6.24.h:11, from /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/include/net/compat.h:15, from <command-line>:0: Luis [1] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.33/compat-wireless-2.6.33-rc4.tar.bz2 [2] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.32/compat-wireless-2.6.32.3.tar.bz2 [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html