On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:12:46PM -0800, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:42:43AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:42:18PM -0800, Paul Hickey wrote: > > > Hi Luis, > > > > > > 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 is the kernel. I burned the distro right from > > > Fedora. > > > > I am über-surprised to hear that FC10 2.6.27 kernels have added > > pci_ioremap_bar() in their kernel header include/linux/pci.h. I > > have verified this by checking: > > > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/10/x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64.rpm > > > > I have checked upstrea 2.6.27.9 and even 2.6.27.12 and they do not have this. This breaks > > compatibility projects like compat-wireless :( > > > > Kyle? > > > > F10 will be going to 2.6.28 within a few days... but honestly, if people > are going to using out of tree wireless (which is what they're doing, > even if it's going upstream, it's not there now) This stuff just pulls directly from wireless-testing BTW, the rest is just compat crap to get it to work on older kernels. > why can't they just > build their own kernel too? Because it involves a lot more work, just getting initrds to work properly these days in distributions tends to be a real big pain in the ass for the novice user. Upgrading a user's wireless subsystem by simply typing in make sudo make install Is a lot easier than trying to get them to wrap their brain around how to compile and successfully install a new kernel. Additionally some project like openwrt seem to find it a lot more useful than bumping their entire kernel. 16 GB worth of downloads of compat-wireless seems to indicate some people find it a reasonable alternative. Its the only reason why I still maintain it. 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
