Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3448 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933863AbXJPRip (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:38:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:01:55 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: John Daiker , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ath5k compile error in wireless-2.6.git Message-ID: <20071016170155.GB5677@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20071016_183913_116269_D57D1C15) References: <4713EBCA.8010700@gmail.com> <20071015234601.GA4125@tuxdriver.com> <20071015234748.GB4125@tuxdriver.com> <43e72e890710160914g2caa998cpd7bbb058fd064372@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <43e72e890710160914g2caa998cpd7bbb058fd064372@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:14:17PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On 10/15/07, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 07:46:01PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:38:02PM -0700, John Daiker wrote: > > > > John, > > > > > > > > I just checked out the wireless-2.6.git tree from Kernel.org to test the > > > > new ath5k driver. I get the following compile error on a 'vanilla' > > > > git-clone. > > > > > > Please use the 'everything' branch for development. > > > > > > git checkout everything > > Approach 1 > > > Hmmm...maybe this instead: > > > > git checkout -b everything origin/everything > > Approach 2 > > What's fun is that the above is approach 1 is actually necessary on > PowerPC. It seems git for powerpc still uses the old branch stuff. For > example I can't use approach 2. I'll add this to the wiki for ath5k, > just a head up in case there's some PowerPC users out there. I think this has more to do with the git version (i.e. release) than the architecture. "Approach 1" worked everywhere for a long time, while I only became aware of "Approach 2" a few months ago. John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com