From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [66.111.4.28] (helo=out4.smtp.messagingengine.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HH90Q-0007ui-BY for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:32:22 +0100 Received: from out1.internal (unknown [10.202.2.149]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044F11AE829; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:32:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by out1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:32:20 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: LYamvT0HUtFsul+msu0w9fZqaOay31NhWie6I6tlMTT3 1171416739 Received: from [192.168.76.11] (secure.astc-design.com [203.122.250.137]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC7741F7EE; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:32:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45D266A3.4040102@whitby.id.au> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:02:19 +1030 From: Rod Whitby User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Lenehan References: <45D1574C.8090009@whitby.id.au> <20070214012158.GA906@twibble.org> In-Reply-To: <20070214012158.GA906@twibble.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: RFC: madwifi-ng patch rationalisation and version update X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:32:22 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jamie Lenehan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:44:36PM +1030, Rod Whitby wrote: > [...] >> We also intend updating madwifi-ng to a later snapshot (e.g. >> r2100-20070210), cause the current version won't build against 2.6.20 >> due to changes in the INIT_WORK kernel macro. > > I've been waiting for them to fix this for a while now so I can move > forward to newer kernels - so I definitely want the newer verison. > > I think it'd would be a good idea to remove all the older versions as > well, apart from perhaps r1844 which corrosponds to the last actual > madwifi release (0.9.2.1). This should help get us back to one set of > patches as well since in version r1844 they changed the file that arm > is patching, requiring different patches for r1844 and newer. > > Actually looking at it now it appears as if someone patched the > version in the files directory for a newer version so the older > versions (prior to r1844) won't build anymore anyway (patching will > fail). So the older versions of madwifi-ng and all the version > specific subdirs can all go as well. OK, I'll do this too. So the only madwifi-ng versions remaining will be madwifi-ng_r1844-20061208.bb and madwifi-ng_r2100-20070210.bb and they will use common patches from the files directory. I'll let someone else deal with madwifi-modules ... -- Rod