reassign 328226 ipw2100-source thanks On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:00:28AM +0200, Sebastian Ley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > reassign 328226 ieee80211-source > thanks > > From a discussion with upstream I was told that ieee80211 ought to remove > header files from the kernel. Of course this is not done by the Debian > packages (would be a policy violation) but it seems to be the root cause why > ipw2100 and ipw2200 do not build against kernel 2.6.13. > > For a full discussion see: > http://bughost.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=786 > > So, I reassign this to ieee80211 anyway. One thing that came to my mind to > cleanly fix this for Debian would be to add diversion for the header files in > question in the kernel-header package. Don't know if this is feasable, I > never used diversions so far.
This is not possible because there are different ways of building the driver, one being using a kernel tree which is not provided by debian, and not even in the /usr/src directory. There is no clean way to "physically" override the headers provided by the kernel. This is something that has to be dealt by the makefile of ipw2x00 i think. I found something that half works (works only for gcc 4.x) and applied it to ipw2200, but I'm looking for a solution that would work anywhere. The situation sucks, but it is impossible to fix at ieee80211 level. Cheers, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
