Bug 457089 - new ath9k wireless driver should be added to rawhide kernel rpm
Summary: new ath9k wireless driver should be added to rawhide kernel rpm
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-29 15:31 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2008-08-12 15:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-08-12 15:34:56 UTC
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ath9k patch from current ath9k git that now has 2.6.27 related changes. (954.36 KB, text/plain)
2008-08-03 15:52 UTC, Need Real Name 		no flags Details
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Description Need Real Name 2008-07-29 15:31:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
The new ath9k driver is now in the mywireless-testing git as a branch and should
be added to the rawhide kernel rpm to help get it wider testing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.27-0.186.rc0.git15.fc10

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected results:


Additional info:

The ath9k driver also has 16 new patches that fix bugs in the existing ath9k
git. These are at...

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731087109579&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731131710202&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731046109063&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731046109068&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731046109071&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731046209075&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731046209078&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051309122&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051509125&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051509128&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051609131&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051609135&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051709138&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051709141&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051709144&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051809148&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=121731051809151&w=2
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2008-07-29 15:33:01 UTC 
Opps. The hyperlinks to these patches do not appear to be stable. These are in
the linux-wireless mailing list under the thread...

Re: [PATCH 00/16] ath9k: some cleanups, and a few small fixes
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2008-07-29 15:34:54 UTC 
My mistake. The hyperlinks do appear to be correct for the patches.
Comment 3 Need Real Name 2008-08-03 15:52:35 UTC 
Created attachment 313295 [details]
ath9k patch from current ath9k git that now has 2.6.27 related changes.
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2008-08-03 15:54:55 UTC 
The current ath9k git now has the necessary kernel 2.6.27 related changes and works flawlessly against Fedora 9 when built in the current rawhide kernel srpm.
The upstream developers intend this driver to go in around 2.6.28 but it is completely usable at this point.
Comment 5 John W. Linville 2008-08-12 15:34:56 UTC 
The ath9k driver is in rawhide (via Linus's current 2.6.27 tree).
Comment 6 Need Real Name 2008-08-12 15:57:16 UTC 
Is config-generic modified to contain

CONFIG_ATH9k=m

so that the driver will build?
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