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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:48:07 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat-wireless: Fix the bleeding-edge version to build
	on 2.6.27
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:

> I checked these patches on 2.6.27 and 2.6.31, but not for the intermediate
> releases.

That works for me thanks, applied with some minor modifications.

> Index: compat-wireless-2009-09-05/include/net/compat-2.6.28.h
> ===================================================================
> --- compat-wireless-2009-09-05.orig/include/net/compat-2.6.28.h
> +++ compat-wireless-2009-09-05/include/net/compat-2.6.28.h


> Index: compat-wireless-2009-09-05/net/wireless/compat-2.6.28.c
> ===================================================================
> --- compat-wireless-2009-09-05.orig/net/wireless/compat-2.6.28.c
> +++ compat-wireless-2009-09-05/net/wireless/compat-2.6.28.c

Just a heads up, I don't keep these file at include/net or
net/wireless on my git tree, instead I stash them into compat/. The
./scripts/admin-update.sh then is used to cp then. I did this to make
it clear that the compat stuff comes from outside.

> Index: compat-wireless-2009-09-05/net/wireless/scan.c
> ===================================================================
> --- compat-wireless-2009-09-05.orig/net/wireless/scan.c
> +++ compat-wireless-2009-09-05/net/wireless/scan.c
> @@ -499,8 +499,10 @@ cfg80211_inform_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy,
>
>        kref_init(&res->ref);
>
> +#if (LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,30))
>        /* cfg80211_bss_update() eats up res - we ensure we free it there */
>        kmemleak_ignore(res);
> +#endif

And this hunk should no longer be present on bleeding edge.

Thanks!

  Luis