From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Christian Jaeger <chrjae@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Why were patches reverted on 2010-09-21? (carl9170 and others)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:27:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006152716.GF2472@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=buSXukPp4xeSdig6z3rvNs2G=v6s1Y794Q2JK@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:07:12AM -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> Thanks for your explantion.
>
> My patches on top of the stable kernel don't build (they depend a
> 'cipher' member on ‘struct ieee80211_key_conf’, and I guess there may
> be more). If I want to reach my goal of trying carl9170 with a stable
> kernel, should I still proceed that route, i.e. finding the patches
> that carl* depends on, or trying to change the carl* code to not
> require them, or is there a better idea? I'd like to avoid running
> wireless-testing as is if possible (for fear of stability and security
> issues on this world-facing, supposedly stable router of mine).
You might try the compat-wireless stuff on top of whatever kernel
you are using.
Hth!
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-06 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 23:33 Why were patches reverted on 2010-09-21? (carl9170 and others) Christian Jaeger
2010-10-06 13:23 ` John W. Linville
2010-10-06 14:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-10-06 15:07 ` Christian Jaeger
2010-10-06 15:27 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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