From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:42818 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755928AbZATUGe (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:06:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:05:15 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Paul Hickey , stable@kernel.org, Kyle McMartin , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Luis Rodriguez Subject: Re: [stable] Failed Build of modules for 2.6.27.9-159 Message-ID: <20090120200515.GA5077@kroah.com> (sfid-20090120_210639_214303_4759E2BB) References: <1232319854.4596.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090119191138.GA4018@tesla> <1232404986.3641.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090120000336.GB4018@tesla> <1232433738.3696.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090120194243.GC19581@tesla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <20090120194243.GC19581@tesla> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html