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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:40:36 -0500
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Buesch" <mb@bu3sch.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24, mac80211 and b/g switching
Cc: "Vladimir Koutny" <vlado@work.ksp.sk>,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
>
> On Friday 07 March 2008 18:43:59 Vladimir Koutny wrote:
>  > Johannes Berg wrote:
>  > >> Is this a known issue? (I didn't manage to find anything in ml archives
>  > >> so far) Or any hints on how to solve this?
>  > >
>  > > You want to develop against a non-ancient kernel that has all the HW
>  > > mode foo removed.
>  >
>  > Well, the question is not what version I would like to develop for, but
>  > what version I have to :( Stable kernel releases should be those
>  > versions you want to base real products on, right?
>  >
>  > Do you think that taking mac80211 from wireless-2.6 (or -testing or
>  > whatever) would cause way too many conflicts when merged back to 2.6.24?
>  >   Or am I on my own to fix this somehow in 2.6.24?
>
>  OpenWRT ported a rather recent mac80211 back to 2.6.23. So it shouldn't be too hard.

If you want to work with the latest wireless subsystem on older
kernels you can also use compat-wireless-2.6 package. It supports
kernels >= 2.6.21. Only thing left to do on 2.6.21 is to test PCI and
add any needed backports there.

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download

  Luis