From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: PAN Sunny S K <sunnypan@ust.hk>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Building of compat-wireless-old in 2.6.25 BSP kernel for PowerPC architecture
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:53:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43e72e891001260853s4811bc39s2399d138d0a7da83@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51523.143.89.144.207.1264488274.squirrel@sqmail.ust.hk>
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:44 PM, PAN Sunny S K <sunnypan@ust.hk> wrote:
>And how can I solve the building problem between the
> compat-wireless-old and the 2.6.25 kernel?
compat-wireless-old is deprecated. I forked off a new compat-wireless
since mac80211 added multiqueue support a while ago, but recently
compat-wireless started to get support for older kernels again because
mac80211 stopped using the multiqueue support. By default the stable
compat-wireless releases up to the ones based on 2.6.32.3 had support
for kernels >= 2.6.25. Then if you enable only ath5k or ath9k you can
go even lower, to 2.6.23.
This all changed again for 2.6.32.4 where mac80211 once again
re-enabled multiqueue support but I did make an attempt to actually
backport that this time [1] down to 2.6.23 and actually even lower
kernels. That release hasn't been tested yet though so I'm waiting to
hear about results. I may get a chance to test a 2.6.23 kernel with
that snapshot at some point today, we'll see.
So apart from compat-wireless though you actually need the full SoC
support though and that is provided by openwrt but I am not sure down
to what kernel that is backported to. In any case you are better off
just upgrading to a newer kernel as others recommend.
[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=126420655321607&w=2
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-26 6:44 Building of compat-wireless-old in 2.6.25 BSP kernel for PowerPC architecture PAN Sunny S K
2010-01-26 7:28 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-01-26 16:31 ` X Xiao
2010-01-26 16:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2010-01-27 10:48 ` PAN Sunny S K
2010-01-27 18:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-01-29 6:41 ` PAN Sunny S K
2010-01-29 17:35 ` Pavel Roskin
2010-02-01 4:06 ` PAN Sunny S K
2010-02-01 4:14 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-01 4:29 ` PAN Sunny S K
2010-02-01 18:03 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-02 12:15 ` Sunny Pan
2010-01-27 22:02 ` Pavel Roskin
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