On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Corey Wright <undefined@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (my apologies to those with thread-aware mail user agents as this is not a > true reply as i'm not subscribed to linux-wireless, but copied from > marc.info's raw message display.) > >> If there are any bugs please report them >> through linux-wireless. > >> I've tested ath5k on 2.6.27.41 on x86_64 and >> send this e-mail out through it. > >> While at it 2.6.32.2 got released today so I just updated a release >> for that so users can benefit from the few fixes [3], you can check >> the ChangeLog for that on the wireless for details on the changes [4]. > > i tested ath5k from compat-wireless-2.6.32 on 2.6.27.41 and from > compat-wireless-2.6.32.2 on 2.6.27.42 and i needed this patch [1] > to avoid duplicate ieee80211_rx symbol in ieee80211 (from kernel) & > mac80211 (from compat-wireless). > > [1] http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/54569/ > > i see that the patch was applied to compat-wireless-2.6.33-rc1, but i > wonder if it should be backported to the 2.6.32.2 release. I'll suck it in, thanks for the report. > actually, i have no personal stake in the fix as after i got it to work i > learned that the new release is not compatible with my older distro-provided > user-land (doesn't recognize it as wireless), Old userspace should not bust. If you find what the issue was let us know. AFAICT old userspace tend to look for 3 possible things to see if a device is a wireless device. 1) Wireless-tools requires SIOCGIWRANGE 2) Network manager requires SIOCGIWNAME 3) Linux hald < 0.5.12 used to use check the existance of /sys/class/net/<interface>/wireless/ The only one I can think of your userspace might have an issue with is the last one but even then you should get this if you have CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y on 2.6.27.41 > which i don't feel like > upgrading/self-maintaining and possibly descending into dependency-hell, so > i'm sticking with compat-wireless-2.6.30 (compat-wireless-2.6.31-rc7 release > didn't seem to work as well as 2.6.30), but thought the finding might be of > interest to others (possibly stumbling upon this searching for > "compat-wireless-2.6.32 ieee80211_rx ieee80211 mac80211 duplicate symbol" > or something similar). > > thanks for compat-wireless! Thanks for reporting your issue. 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
