Subject: Re: porting open source mac to linux 2.6.13.0
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.b.bhushan@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:53:26 +0100
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On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 10:54 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> hi all,
>          Is there any possible way to port open source mac stck on
> linux kernel 2.6.13.0 . Problem is, i am using a embedded platform
> which is supporting only 2.6.13. 0 and now assigned job is to make it
> working for open source mac stack without porting any other changes of
> linux kernel .

First, read Holgers mail. Then re-read it. Then cancel the contract with
your embedded vendor and find a decent one.

And frankly, the effort to port 2.6.29 to your platform is probably less
than porting mac80211 back to 2.6.13.

johannes

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