On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Friday 07 March 2008 18:43:59 Vladimir Koutny wrote: > > Johannes Berg wrote: > > >> Is this a known issue? (I didn't manage to find anything in ml archives > > >> so far) Or any hints on how to solve this? > > > > > > You want to develop against a non-ancient kernel that has all the HW > > > mode foo removed. > > > > Well, the question is not what version I would like to develop for, but > > what version I have to :( Stable kernel releases should be those > > versions you want to base real products on, right? > > > > Do you think that taking mac80211 from wireless-2.6 (or -testing or > > whatever) would cause way too many conflicts when merged back to 2.6.24? > > Or am I on my own to fix this somehow in 2.6.24? > > OpenWRT ported a rather recent mac80211 back to 2.6.23. So it shouldn't be too hard. If you want to work with the latest wireless subsystem on older kernels you can also use compat-wireless-2.6 package. It supports kernels >= 2.6.21. Only thing left to do on 2.6.21 is to test PCI and add any needed backports there. http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
