On Wednesday 05 November 2008 15:11:40 Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > >> and applying the two patches on top, they applies cleanly and compile > >> okay except for some warnings in a different module about missing > >> symbols (<something>_sta) but the result dies very painfully with a > >> kernel oops: > > > > Looks like something bad in combination of compat-wireless plus kernel > > 2.6.27.4-73.fc10.x86_64, please try a plain wireless-testing tree with > > the two patches. > > Hmm, I'll have to check, but I was a bit puzzled that compat-wireless > didn't build the mac80211 module and the fc10 kernel didn't have one > either. (and early kernels have a mac80211.ko). Has this been made > obsolete, or did the fc10 kernel shipped it compiled-in and for some > good/bad reason compat-wireless doesn't build modules that are compiled in? > (obviously there is no point in building a module the older version of > which is compiled in since it won't be used...) > > The status.retry_count vs status.rate[0].count change must be in > mac80211.ko or some other more generic module? Don't know about fc10 kernel, but the changes also include mac80211.ko > > Hin-Tak > P.S. I know building a whole wireless-testing kernel is the way to go, but > it takes *very long*... -- []'s Herton -- 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
