From: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
To: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com" <users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: make the driver build for Ralink SoC
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:02:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5155AD13.40607@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AC53EE34-1306-490A-9BB3-290434C08D1C@gmail.com>
2013.03.27. 21:38 keltezéssel, Gertjan van Wingerde írta:
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 27 mrt. 2013, at 19:25, John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org> wrote:
>
>> On 27/03/13 18:17, John W. Linville wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 08:35:34AM +0100, John Crispin wrote:
>>>>>> Fix up the dependencies to make the driver actually compile on Ralink WiSoC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: John Crispin<blogic@openwrt.org>
>>>>> I don't think this is a proper way to handle this. rt2x00pci.c was only meant to be used for PCI devices; introducing the use of CONFIG_PCI in that file doesn't seem appropriate to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately I am away from my home computer, so I can't look at this properly until the weekend.
>>>>>
>>>> Indeed not the cleanest patch ... after changing the config symbols
>>>> I realized that that is not enough to make the driver actually work
>>>>
>>>> It turns out that inside openwrt the compat-wireless package sets
>>>> CONFIG_RT2800PCI=m to make the driver build and then applies the
>>>> #ifdef'ery to rt2880pci.c
>>>>
>>>> I will try to find the time today or tomorrow to have a closer look at this
>>> Any more word on this?
>> Gabor posted a series as RFC that would fix this properly ->
>>
>> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermail/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/2013-March/005837.html
>
> Yeah, and that series looks good. Unfortunately, it is too intrusive to still apply for 3.9.
>
> John L., could we get in a scheme where we apply John C.'s patch for 3.9 and then use Gabor's series for 3.10?
> Don't know how that works with making sure that this patch is reverted for 3.10.
>
> Can you coordinate, or should I help you with this?
Sorry for the late reply. I have sent a less intrusive version of that RFC
patch-set, as an alternative solution.
-Gabor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-29 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-20 19:48 [PATCH] rt2x00: make the driver build for Ralink SoC John Crispin
2013-03-20 21:29 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2013-03-21 7:35 ` John Crispin
2013-03-27 17:17 ` John W. Linville
2013-03-27 18:25 ` John Crispin
2013-03-27 20:38 ` Gertjan van Wingerde
2013-03-27 20:48 ` John Crispin
2013-03-29 15:02 ` Gabor Juhos [this message]
2013-03-21 18:03 ` Gabor Juhos
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