Hi Thomas, I questioned that myself and will yield to your greater experience. I decided it might not be advisable to be minimalist in this. There are a number of considerations that caused me to think this way.
a) The scripts are the backport project's recommended approach. If the backport project modifies the requirements, one would hope that they will also modify the scripts, in which case the recipe has a better chance of continuing to work. b) While 'linux-next' is definitely superfluous, 'linux-stable' is useful as it is made a remote to the open80211s repo. This not only aligns the process with the backport wiki, but also appears to have the benefit of making it easier to figure out the open80211s history relative to the linux-stable evolution. I don't completely understand all of this yet, but an immediate benefit is that the output you get from 'git describe' with 'linux-stable' as a remote is much more helpful than without. c) Part of my objective is to create a real development environment that not only supports building a working snapshot but supports contribution to the Linux wireless and open80211s efforts. To that end, I wouldn't want to leave something out that was important for the bigger picture. At the moment, I'm not qualified to figure out what is critical and what isn't! :-/ Like I said, I'm none to confident in all of this yet, but hopefully that explains my thinking. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Pedersen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 12:38 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Updated Wiki HI Paul, On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Stoaks <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Just wanted to let you know that I have updated the Wiki page: > https://github.com/cozybit/open80211s/wiki/CompatWirelessBuilding > > Hopefully it helps out other newcomers. I'm still sorting this stuff > out, so feel free to correct it (and me) where I have made errors. The section "Download the compat-drivers code" seems a little too complicated (you don't really need linux-next and linux-stable.git?). Any objection to replacing those instructions with: git clone git://github.com/mcgrof/compat.git git clone git://github.com/mcgrof/compat-drivers.git Thomas _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
