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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:14:33 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: How to retrieve version from kernel source (the right way)?
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:17:35AM +0100, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> (Please CC: me, I'm not subscribed - although I'm following the list 
> through gmane.org)
> 
> I'm working on Madwifi (a driver for wireless lan cards with Atheros 
> chipset), which isn't part of the kernel (and probably won't ever be due 
> to the binary-only HAL).

Why don't you use the reverse-engineered HAL from OpenBSD?