From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:53948 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755194AbZATUQY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:16:24 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] Failed Build of modules for 2.6.27.9-159 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:15:21 +0100 Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Paul Hickey , stable@kernel.org, Kyle McMartin , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Luis Rodriguez References: <1232319854.4596.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090120194243.GC19581@tesla> <20090120200515.GA5077@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20090120200515.GA5077@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-Id: <200901202115.22231.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20090120_211629_072374_E07D70CB) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 20 January 2009 21:05:15 Greg KH wrote: > > 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_6= 4/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 = have this. This breaks > > compatibility projects like compat-wireless :( >=20 > compatibility projects should be checking for the absense or presence= of > specific functions, not triggering off of kernel release numbers :) Yeah, well. But it's hard to do, if you can't do it in the preprocessor= =2E So you can really only check for macros, not functions. --=20 Greetings, Michael. -- 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