On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Sertac TULLUK <stulluk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear All; > > I have full source of Celestial CSM1203 ( ARM 926 EJ-S core) Kernel ( which > is modified from 2.6.12.5). > > The source and toolchain can be downloaded from here: > http://www.merihvideo.com.tr/chipbox-source.php > > (.config and CSM1203 defconfig can be seen from the source) > > I know that compat-wireless support down to 2.6.24 and newer, but may be you > can help to give support for USB WIFI for RALINK based solutions on my very > old kernel. Compat-wireless strives to support at the very least all kernels listed on kernel.org, these are supported kernels. From a community perspective it makes no sense to support older kernels as that would also mean subtly recommending older kernels which we do not and we cannot given that those are unsupported kernels. If companies / users wants to take support down to even older kernels that's fine too -- patches are welcomed. I will say that we have looked at backporting a lot of USB drivers to older kernels but USB has changed quite a lot since 2.6.12 so even architecturally its a pain in the ass to try to backport to such an old kernel. I'd frankly give up and choose at the minimum 2.6.29, given that we have another USB driver starting to support that kernel carl9170, but I will note that 2.6.29 is no longer supported (its not even listed on kernel.org). So -- just upgrade. > I also need CIFS support for recording streams to windows shares. I hope > compat team may give some suggestions about implementing CIFS on 2.6.12.5 > too. If its a module then just throw it on to compat and ensure you can compile it on older kernels as well using ckmake, if it compiles chances are high it will load fine. Ozan has patches for to enable ckmake to be distribution agnostic, otherwise you have to use Ubuntu for now. Best of luck. 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
