Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f189.google.com ([209.85.222.189]:42340 "EHLO mail-pz0-f189.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753169Ab0A1WRK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:17:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B620AD1.8010908@redfish-solutions.com> References: <43e72e891001221318p695f0923hea4f3573cedbd78d@mail.gmail.com> <4B61E530.1060008@redfish-solutions.com> <43e72e891001281313g796316f9t4708f9fbc8853a10@mail.gmail.com> <4B620AD1.8010908@redfish-solutions.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:16:49 -0800 Message-ID: <43e72e891001281416qf559ed0v83cdd6ae5fb8f630@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Hacking documentation updated for compat-wireless To: "Philip A. Prindeville" Cc: linux-wireless , linux-bluetooth Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > On 01/28/2010 01:13 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Philip A. Prindeville >> wrote: >>> On 01/22/2010 01:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>> I've updated the hacking documentation for compat-wireless, please let >>>> me know if there are any questions: >>>> >>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/hacking >>>> >>>>   Luis >>> >>> Hi Luis, >>> >>> Finally got around to reading this.  A couple of things weren't clear to me. >>> >>> On the page, if the $HOME is assumed to be /home/user, then: >>> >>> $HOME/wireless-testing is where the generated snapshot is left; >>> >>> the "git clone" of linux-next, compat, and compat-wireless-2.6 all happen directly in $HOME; >>> >>> Running this, however, doesn't work: >>> >>> [philipp@builder ~/cw]$ env | grep GIT >>> GIT_TREE=/home/philipp/cw/wireless-testing >> >> GIT_TREE should be your linux-next tree not wireless-testing tree. >> >>   Luis > > Ok, you might want to correct the Wiki then. Feel free do so yourself, it is a wiki after all, I'd appreciate any corrects made. > Also, in a cross-building environment, I'm not sure why admin-clean.sh mucks with the host's kernel sources: > > $ scripts/admin-clean.sh > cat: /home/philipp/cw/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-release: No such file or directory > cat: /home/philipp/cw/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-release: No such file or directory > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.4-30.fc12.x86_64' > scripts/Makefile.clean:17: /home/philipp/cw/compat-wireless-2.6/drivers/bluetooth/Makefile: No such file or directory > make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/home/philipp/cw/compat-wireless-2.6/drivers/bluetooth/Makefile'.  Stop. > make[2]: *** [/home/philipp/cw/compat-wireless-2.6/drivers/bluetooth] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [_clean_/home/philipp/cw/compat-wireless-2.6] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.4-30.fc12.x86_64' > make: *** [clean] Error 2 > Cleaned wireless-bt-compat-2.6 > $ You could read it you know, it runs make clean. Luis