Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-08-04

John W. Linville
2008-08-05T14:32:57Z

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:28:39PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:28:14 -0700 (PDT) David Miller
> <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> > From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:17:10 -0400
> >
> > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:01:47PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > > I'm holding off on this pull until the list.h changes get so me lkml
> > > > ACKs.
> > >
> > > Sure, np. I created a "no-ath9k" branch in case you are feeling
> > > frisky -- it is the same except for omitting the list.h changes,
> > > the ath5k pci table change, and the new ath9k driver.
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git no-ath9k
> > >
> > > Hth!
> >
> > Due to the powerpc build failures the list.h stuff causes, I'm going
> ^^^^^^^
> It was a sparc64 defconfig that failed due to the list.h changes. The
> powerpc build only failed when I added an include of <linux/bug.h> to
> list.h.
>
> The powerpc compiler got an internal error trying to compile the ath9k
> code - but I don't know if there is anything we can to do to the source
> to work around that.

FWIW I fixed-up the wireless-2.6 tree to reflect what davem pulled -- a
noop, but at least those patches shouldn't pollute -next tomorrow. :-)

John
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