From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754551Ab0IDCPq (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2010 22:15:46 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33837 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753733Ab0IDCPo (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2010 22:15:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:16:27 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Vipin Mehta Cc: Randy Dunlap , Stephen Rothwell , "linux-next@vger.kernel.org" , LKML Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3 (ar6k) Message-ID: <20100904021627.GA7695@suse.de> References: <20100903135206.d9bc2093.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100903180614.81e5eee0.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <35B17FE5076C7040809188FBE7913F983F23479B57@SC1EXMB-MBCL.global.atheros.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <35B17FE5076C7040809188FBE7913F983F23479B57@SC1EXMB-MBCL.global.atheros.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 07:02:36PM -0700, Vipin Mehta wrote: > Apologies for the inconvenience. I synced to the linux-next tree and looked into the drivers/staging/ath6kl directory. I was able to compile the driver without any issues. > > One of the reasons this might happen is if the following symbolic link is broken. > > drivers/staging/ath6kl/include/common/AR6002/hw2.0/hw > > The link should point to drivers/staging/ath6kl/include/common/AR6002/hw2.0/hw.0 I applied the patch and the symlink "should" be there, but in general, we shouldn't rely on a symlink in the kernel tree to work properly. Can you send me a patch to fix this up so it works without a symlink? thanks, greg k-h