Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:44:06PM -0700, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> 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2004, so also outdated).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it (along with ipw2200) because it is outdated and current vesion is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.
Ummm, eerr, the kernel-packages package the stable versions as
provided by upstream. Is it possible to provide a separate
package that includes the changes you need?
--
Horms
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