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Subject: Re: Backporting wl1271 driver to kernel-2.6.32 using compat-wireless
From: Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:07:43 +0400
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To: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org


On Dec 23, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:

> Compat-wireless does not check what patches you applied to your kernel
> yet, it just checks what kernel version you are using and want patches
> are applied to it in the vanilla version. If you add some patches
> yourself to the kernel to backport some stuff you have to manually edit
> compat-wireless's config.mk file.

I was just thinking, run-time PM never made it to 2.6.32 right ? So, I might
not need to add those run-time PM patches ?


> You also have to backport the CONFIG_WL12XX_PLATFORM_DATA and activate
> it in your kernel config, wl1271_sdio depends on that.

Ok, you mean back port that structure from 2.6.37-rc6 to the android-2.6.32 kernel?

> Probably you have to change some other stuff on your architecture code
> so that your device finds this sdio card, but I do not know what you
> have to do exactly.

I've already got the required kernel modifications for the kernel board-omap3beagle.c
file, and have already tested it out with vanilla linux-2.6.37-rc6 with the wl1271 driver, 
and it works.

So, I'll just need to port those changes across to the android-2.6.32 kernel and see if it
all works together. 

"What are my chances, doc?"  ;-) 

Elvis Dowson