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From: Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <abonilla@linuxwireless.org>
Subject: Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:44:06 -0700
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Horms wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:30:09PM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I've encountered the problem with 2.6.14 kernels: they are shipped
>>with ancient version of ipw2200 drivers (1.0.0 while current version
>>is 1.0.7) and ancient version of ieee80211 subsystem (copyrighted as
>>2004, so also outdated).
>>
>>This breaks compilation of module from ipw2200-source package (because
>>it links against in-kernel ieee80211).
>>    
>>
The .deb will need to run the remove-old script included in the new 
versions of the driver/stack.

>
>I assume the problem you are seeing is a headers problem.
>
>  
>
>>Is there way to modularize builds to exclude ieee80211 or just disable
>>it (along with ipw2200) because it is outdated and current vesion is
>>shipped in ieee80211-source package?
>>    
>>
>
>Probably the best place to start is to ping netdev to find out if
>there are any plans to update IPW2200 in Linus's tree. I've CCed
>that list, hopefully someone can shed some light on this.
>
>  
>
Not really. Basically, only stable versions of the driver make it into 
Mainline, and currently 1.0.8 is being tested to move into mainline 
(first -mm, then when people decide move to Linus)

Basically, when installing 1.0.8 and ieee80211-1.1.5, the .deb packages 
or whatever will need to run the remove-old script that is included in 
the source in order to make the new versions compile.

.Alejandro