[Click] Click and kernel patches

[Harald Schiöberg]

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Lars Bro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Click for testing of our wireless product, and I experience an
> increasing demand for support of newer kernels. The reason for this is
> hardware of course, but also wireless(802.11) drivers have been changing a
> lot lately.
> 
> I am now working with Matteo Croce's patches for 2.6.31 (on 2.6.31.9), this
> is not as easy as I had thought. I can also see that Adam Greenhalgh has
> done some work in separating syntax changes from core changes.
> 
> What I would like to know is whether this kind of work is already ongoing,
> or if there is an official plan for the next kernel patch.

Cough, I boldy announced to work on a patchless Linux module... but got
heavily delayed by personal issues ... and probably will only be able to
resume work on that after March 15th. I hereby seriously apologize.

Yet that is only so-so related to a true Linux-patch, and I haven't
heard of anything in the queue after Matteo's post...

	harald

> As I can see, Matteo's patch also includes changes for Click itself, and
> this should be very carefully considered.
> 
> So I suggest that we agree on a "next" kernel version to support, so we can
> work on it in common.
> 
> Any votes?
> 
> yours,
> Lars Bro
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