From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756254Ab0ANHVk (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:21:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755937Ab0ANHVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:21:38 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f188.google.com ([209.85.222.188]:54072 "EHLO mail-pz0-f188.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751957Ab0ANHVh (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:21:37 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=L3H7cA/MvP9sD66TxTgjH3JZBbNF9+d3KM9hbNhnHVxKW5pf0eEPOuIxeA9kEhnSRB tzeK5I1Kwpfu+kDSux9PRcOPbSGeTt/VT5NaHMaGH7MgSR0Nyji5PHpDTEKqHlm9SeTS H5J3D3uCP9vzxUFL+JpHFb5m0mH7AFrjeYFI0= MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:21:15 -0800 Message-ID: <43e72e891001132321qccde01cnd7002d1f94bee1c0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Compat / compat-wireless / bluetooth for 2.6.33-rc4 and 2.6.32.3 To: linux-wireless , linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The 2.6.33-rc4 and 2.6.32.3 kernels came out a few days ago, along with it comes the respective 2.6.33-rc4 [1] and 2.6.32.3 [2] compat-wireless releases [3]. As noted previously the compat-wireless-2.6.33 releases now also have bluetooth backported for kernels >= 2.6.27. A few release notes: * compat.git - generic kernel compatibility package. This is currently used on bleeding edge compat-wireless and the 2.6.33 compat-wireless releases. Other external drivers are welcomed to take advantage of this though. - gets pm-qos for kernels down to 2.6.23 - gets the new 2.6.33 firmware_class backported for older kernels which allows usage of drivers with thew new request_firmware_nowait(). Users of this for 802.11 right now are ar9170. This actually goes only compile tested, please let me know if this worked. * compat-wireless-2.6.32.3: - now goes all the way down to 2.6.23 for ath5k and ath9k, should be easy to test/enable others - gets pm-qos backport as well * compat-wireless-2.6.33-rc4: - The new debugfs_remove_recursive(), added as of 2.6.26 but used on 802.11 only until 2.6.32-rc4 on both mac80211 and cfg80211 cannot be backported as it relies on two static variables on fs/debugfs/inode.c, to enable backporting for older kernels than 2.6.26 we'll need to relabel CONFIG_CFG80211_DEBUGFS and CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUGFS and disable them for older kernels. Due to the new multiqueue patch we only support kernels >= 2.6.27 on bleeding edge compat-wireless. This patch is due to go into stable down to 2.6.32 so both next releases 2.6.32.4 and 2.6.32-rc5 are expected to have this and as such will have backporting disabled for older kernels as well until we figure out how to properly backport this. The compat-wireless 2.6.32.3 release causes this harmless warning on older kernels < 2.6.24, it can safely be ingored, I see no way of avoiding it. CC [M] /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/net/rfkill/input.o In file included from /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/net/rfkill/input.c:16: include/linux/input.h:933:1: warning: "BIT" redefined In file included from include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h:11, from include/asm/cpufeature.h:10, from include/asm/alternative.h:43, from include/asm/atomic.h:4, from /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/include/net/compat-2.6.24.h:11, from /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/include/net/compat.h:15, from :0: Luis [1] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.33/compat-wireless-2.6.33-rc4.tar.bz2 [2] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.32/compat-wireless-2.6.32.3.tar.bz2 [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable