On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > Will this really do the trick? It depends who allocates the > > struture -- kernel code using the old kernel headers or compat-wireless > > code using the replacable headers. > > > > In the earlier case then code using it can't be ported unless we > > come up with an backward-compatible solution, this is possible using > > compat.diff, we can add anything there for this effort. > > > > > > Actually it doesn't after all. There's been other changes on 'struct > usbnet' > that my trick doesn't account for, it might only work on 2.6.24 but that's > not helpful at all. Does the driver rely on all the new stuff? Or just he one you mentioned? > > > > Heh fun, so now all usb wireless devices are named wlan%d, all > > mac80211 devices are named wlan%d, and yet a few PCI ones (prism54, > > etc), still will get their wlan%d. Should we care about just sticking to > > one or not bother for old stuff and just moving forward stick to > > wlan%d for both all fullmac and softmac devices? > > > > I thought all wireless devices should have wlan%d names. Well I would agree with this statement now. The arguments I've seen before against this was: * if its not broken don't fix it * scripts who rely on device names may be broken I'm all for just being consistent and sticking wlan%d though. Script breaking consideration is important though. > > > > > > > Also rndis_host should include this patch: > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=120626915222918&w=2 > > > > > > > drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c is included as part of compat-wireless. > > I don't provide additional patches but just rely on what is already > > merged. This has the advantage of pushing people to push > > patches directly upstream and getting maintainers to merge them. > > > > Patch was merged into 2.6.25. Cool, then compat picked it up. If I have time I'll try to test the driver on 2.6.22 and see if I can backport any changes. 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
