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On 10/16/07, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:14:17PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On 10/15/07, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:46:01PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:38:02PM -0700, John Daiker wrote:
> > > > > John,
> > > > >
> > > > > I just checked out the wireless-2.6.git tree from Kernel.org to test the
> > > > > new ath5k driver. I get the following compile error on a 'vanilla'
> > > > > git-clone.
> > > >
> > > > Please use the 'everything' branch for development.
> > > >
> > > >       git checkout everything
> >
> > Approach 1
> >
> > > Hmmm...maybe this instead:
> > >
> > >         git checkout -b everything origin/everything
> >
> > Approach 2
> >
> > What's fun is that the above is approach 1 is actually necessary on
> > PowerPC. It seems git for powerpc still uses the old branch stuff. For
> > example I can't use approach 2. I'll add this to the wiki for ath5k,
> > just a head up in case there's some PowerPC users out there.
>
> I think this has more to do with the git version (i.e. release) than
> the architecture.  "Approach 1" worked everywhere for a long time,
> while I only became aware of "Approach 2" a few months ago.

On my x86 box I have git 1.5.2.5
On my PPC box have git 1.5.3.4

And no dice on the PowerPC box. Maybe I have to do a new pull with the
new release.. I'll try.

  Luis
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