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On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/12/2013 02:46 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> No, you or the vendor should forward port it to linux-next, then you
>> can just pick up the whole driver/framework set from compat-wireless.
>
> That is indeed the approach. So integrate your vendor provided driver into
> your local linux-next tree and create you own compat-drivers package using
> that tree (see [1]). You have to tinker the framework to include that
> driver.

Thanks to both of you for the advice, on what best to do long-term.
Better yet, I should look into the feasibility of upgrading my
embedded system's kernel to something more recent (so that I wouldn't
need to use compat-drivers at all then).

Josh Lehan
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