Re: Ath5k compile error in wireless-2.6.git

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:14:17PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On 10/15/07, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:46:01PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:38:02PM -0700, John Daiker wrote:
> > > > John,
> > > >
> > > > I just checked out the wireless-2.6.git tree from Kernel.org to test the
> > > > new ath5k driver. I get the following compile error on a 'vanilla'
> > > > git-clone.
> > >
> > > Please use the 'everything' branch for development.
> > >
> > >       git checkout everything
> 
> Approach 1
> 
> > Hmmm...maybe this instead:
> >
> >         git checkout -b everything origin/everything
> 
> Approach 2
> 
> What's fun is that the above is approach 1 is actually necessary on
> PowerPC. It seems git for powerpc still uses the old branch stuff. For
> example I can't use approach 2. I'll add this to the wiki for ath5k,
> just a head up in case there's some PowerPC users out there.

I think this has more to do with the git version (i.e. release) than
the architecture.  "Approach 1" worked everywhere for a long time,
while I only became aware of "Approach 2" a few months ago.

John
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