From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.54.6]:57430 "HELO outbound-mail-313.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752186Ab0ENQRk (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2010 12:17:40 -0400 Received: from h135.188.123.208.ip.windstream.net ([208.123.188.135] helo=[206.223.20.39]) by host200.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCxZz-0006Wh-9P for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 10:17:39 -0600 Message-ID: <4BED77A2.7050105@dlasys.net> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:17:38 -0400 From: "David H. Lynch Jr." MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: compat-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I am working with the carl9170 driver. I have a working development environment based on wireless-testing. I am going to need to support carl9170 with older linux versions. I pullled the compat-wireless git tree and can not figure out how to build from it. Is there any step by step instructions to get from the raw git tree to being able to build against a specific kernel source ? I DL'd the compat-wireless tarball for 2.6.32. I was able to get that working against ubuntu lucid kernel sources. When I add the carl9170 driver I get a large collection of errors building it. While some of these appear to be very specific to this driver many seem specific to differences between 2.6.32 compat-wireless and wireless testing. I was hoping moving to the compat-wireless git tree would fix that, but I can not figure out how to build from it. In an altogether different project it would be useful use compat-wireless to support a newer wifi driver with a 2.6.27 kernel. That seems fairly standard. But I need to cross compile the kernel. As best as I can tell compat-wireless is setup to work against your current running kernel. Are there any pointers for cross-compiling with compat-wireless, or for building against source other than that for the running kernel ? Thanks -- Dave Lynch DLA Systems Software Development: Embedded Linux 717.587.7774 dhlii@dlasys.net http://www.dlasys.net Over 25 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein