On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The condition #if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,28)) was >> added recently because without it openSuse with kernel 2.6.27 will not >> compile. OpenSuse backports the tracepoint part into their 2.6.27 kernel. > > I remember that thread now. It is probably wrong as a matter of policy > to incorporate patches for distro kernels with backport bits through. > - I am not saying you shouldn't be helpful and provide them - after > all, more users == better testing, and no doubt the investigation > itself throws more insights on the detailed mechanisms - but it is > just that compat-wireless probably should not try to support arbitrary > and substantial changes from a vanilla kernel. I know Suse is popular > so it is important to support Suse users, but I am wondering if > distro-specific changes should be separate or at least, clearly > documented. Not sure why opensuse added round_jiffies_up() to their 2.6.27 kernels, greg may know better, but since its only once change I'm willing to live with what we did to resolve for 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
