[Prism54-devel] fix for islpci_dev.h

[Dan Allen]

Well, if using a 2.4.23 kernel fixes it, then really you don't need
to do anything to the source code I guess, though a lot of users
will have Mandrake 9.2 for a while and that kernel version is
2.4.22.  Perhaps you could make a contrib directory and just add it
as a patch that makefile detects.  At the very least, mention it in
the README file so that Mandrake users don't think that the module
is unusable.

Dan

p.s. By the way, great work!

Herbert Valerio Riedel (hvr@hvrlab.org) wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 22:50, Dan Allen wrote:
> > to build perfectly.  Is it something specific to the mdk kernel or
> > do other people have to make the same change?  Perhaps it is a
> > version difference related to the wireless extension?
> 
>  * kernel source tree (supported versions 2.4.23+ or 2.6.0+)
> 
> > The change instructs to add the following two lines:
> > 
> > #define free_netdev(x) kfree(x) 
> > #define pci_name(x) x->slot_name 
> 
> the mdk seems to be a nonstandard kernel prior to 2.4.23; I have no
> intention of adding kludges just to support some older
> distributor-modified kernels;
> 
> of course, I'm only one of the developers, maybe the others are more
> favorable to supporting such proprietary kernels;
> 
> regards,
> --
> 

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