Re: [stable] Failed Build of modules for 2.6.27.9-159

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:42:43AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:42:18PM -0800, Paul Hickey wrote:
> > Hi Luis,
> >=20
> > 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 is the kernel. I burned the distro right f=
rom
> > Fedora.
>=20
> I am =FCber-surprised to hear that FC10 2.6.27 kernels have added
> pci_ioremap_bar() in their kernel header include/linux/pci.h. I
> have verified this by checking:
>=20
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/10/x86_64/=
kernel-devel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>=20
> I have checked upstrea 2.6.27.9 and even 2.6.27.12 and they do not ha=
ve this. This breaks
> compatibility projects like compat-wireless :(

compatibility projects should be checking for the absense or presence o=
f
specific functions, not triggering off of kernel release numbers :)

> > Also, the ForceXPA might not be a problem, but it makes and logs it=
s
> > attempts 4X per minute. It may not be much of an impact on the CPU,=
 but
> > is it necessary? Plus the message log gets really long really fast.
>=20
> Good point, hopefully this is enough of an argument to make the patch
> go into 2.6.27. The patch is already in for >=3D 2.6.28.
>=20
> Greg -- there is an annoying message that gets printed very often
> when new Atheros 11n cards are used, this is printed upon hw reset
> which occurs on channel changes (scans) and as such happens quite
> often. The message was moved to print only when "EEPROM debugging"
> was enaabled through upstream commit f1dc56003b23d2d5bb5a756de6b1633a=
76c9e697.
> Unfortunately this commit is pretty large as it refactored hw.c into
> separate files. Below is a small one line patch that changes this. Pl=
ease
> let me know if this is OK for 2.6.27.x

Looks good to me, I'll queue it up for the next .27 release.

thanks,

greg k-h
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