Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

[Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>]

Horms wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:30:09PM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've encountered the problem with 2.6.14 kernels: they are shipped
> > with ancient version of ipw2200 drivers (1.0.0 while current version
> > is 1.0.7) and ancient version of ieee80211 subsystem (copyrighted as
> > 2004, so also outdated).
> >
> > This breaks compilation of module from ipw2200-source package (because
> > it links against in-kernel ieee80211).
> >    
The .deb will need to run the remove-old script included in the new 
versions of the driver/stack.

> I assume the problem you are seeing is a headers problem.
>
>  
>
> > Is there way to modularize builds to exclude ieee80211 or just disable
> > it (along with ipw2200) because it is outdated and current vesion is
> > shipped in ieee80211-source package?
> >    
>
> Probably the best place to start is to ping netdev to find out if
> there are any plans to update IPW2200 in Linus's tree. I've CCed
> that list, hopefully someone can shed some light on this.
>
>  
Not really. Basically, only stable versions of the driver make it into 
Mainline, and currently 1.0.8 is being tested to move into mainline 
(first -mm, then when people decide move to Linus)

Basically, when installing 1.0.8 and ieee80211-1.1.5, the .deb packages 
or whatever will need to run the remove-old script that is included in 
the source in order to make the new versions compile.

.Alejandro