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Re: [PATCH 2/2] compat-wireless: update for 2009-06-08

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 03:44, Luis R.
Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Julian Calaby<julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 16:02, Julian Calaby<julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Update to match wireless-testing v2.6.30-rc8-25759-g00f7164
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  compat/compat.diff |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>>  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/compat/compat.diff b/compat/compat.diff
>>> index d89ea98..846e8f5 100644
>>> --- a/compat/compat.diff
>>> +++ b/compat/compat.diff
>>> @@ -181,6 +181,12 @@
>>>  obj-$(CONFIG_LIBERTAS)                += libertas/
>>>
>>>  obj-$(CONFIG_LIBERTAS_THINFIRM)       += libertas_tf/
>>> +@@ -60,5 +34,3 @@
>>> + obj-$(CONFIG_MAC80211_HWSIM)  += mac80211_hwsim.o
>>> +
>>> + obj-$(CONFIG_WL12XX)  += wl12xx/
>>> +-
>>> +-obj-$(CONFIG_IWM)     += iwmc3200wifi/
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> Of course, I forgot to describe the changes in this patch.
>>
>> compat.diff has been updated to apply cleanly over the
>> wireless-testing.git version specified above with no fuzz.
>>
>> iwmc3200wifi, as I don't know if it compiles on anything but
>> wireless-testing.git, has been disabled by editing it out of the
>> Makefile as it's directory isn't actually copied from
>> wireless-testing. -- I'm not sure that this is the correct way to do
>> this as it's hiding the problem away in compat.diff - not obviously
>> fixing it by, e.g. copying the directory from wireless-testing.git or
>> making it compile on older kernels.
>
> This is fine for now.

Cool.

>> I must note that even after these changes, this still doesn't actually
>> compile for me, as ath9k uses the rfkill_ops structure which isn't
>> present in my 2.6.29 kernel.
>
> Thanks for the note, both patches applied. For rfkill we'll need
> someone brave and with time to backport it... as rfkill has been
> re-written. The easiest solution is to revert the patches for older
> kernels through compat.diff. That is add #ifdefs and for old kernel
> revisions use the old stuff, for new kernels (as of 2.6.31) leave the
> code in place.

Thanks for applying them.

-- 

Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx
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