On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:59:54AM +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > (I am not on linux-wireless so please CC: me if replying) > > This is a patch against compat-wireless-2008-06-14 to work with 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 kernel headers. I am using it right now so it works for me, YMMV. > > It is mostly a patch from Herton a few months ago to add support for > Realtek 8187B. Herton's patch was missing a little quirk change for usb endpoint 12 for management frame; and I ported it forward to current fedora 9 kernel headers. > > The rest of the story is at: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432280 > > I have a few questions during the porting: > > - control->queue, which the herton's change used, for switching between 4 tramission queue at end point 6,7,5,4, has disappeared. I hard-coded 6 in this version, (see commemt #37 for background), but what's the correct > way to do this in current wireless-2.6 code? > > - compat-wireless seems to use a small inlined routine > from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/15830, > which isn't in the redhat header yet. so I have added an ifndef at > the top of rtl8187_dev.c . so the patch needs to have that part removed > if commited to compat-wireless. > > - obviously it is getting a bit painful to forward-port the patch every time something else changes or something else changes in the header... > what can I do to make this go into wireless-2.6 ? ACK, same here. I'm an owner of a 'One A110' mini-laptop (see http://a110wiki.de/wiki/Wireless) and the situation is really getting uncontrollable with a gazillion of tarballs and patches for the R8187B driver floating around, all of them with small differences... (the ID on this laptop is 0bda:8189 btw) I'm very interested to see something get merged upstream, and I'm also willing to test whatever needs testing on my hardware. Thanks, Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- 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
