From: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
To: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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	"lrodriguez@atheros.com" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
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	Frank Huang <frankh@marvell.com>,
	Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>,
	Marc Yang <yangyang@marvell.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:53:32 -0700
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/5] compat-wireless: add support for mwifiex
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Hi Hauke,

> > I'm getting an error in "compat-wireless-2.6.39-rc1-3-s/net/wireless/util.c:799" while compiling
> compat-wireless-2.6.39-rc1-3-s.tar.bz2.
> 
> mwifiex is not integrated in the last compat-wireless release from today
> it will be in compat-wireless-2011-04-01.
> The kernel version number in the compat-wireless release is the version
> the code is from. So compat-wireless-2.6.39-rc1-3-s is based on the
> source code from kernel version 2.6.39-rc1, it should compile and work
> with every kernel from 2.6.24 to 2.6.39.
> 
> You could build your own version based on the latest version of
> linux-next. It is described at:
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/hacking

Thanks a lot for the information.

> I created a self made version with the lasted fixes for compat-wireless
> and and mwifiex at:
> http://hauke-m.de/fileadmin/openwrt/compat-wireless-2011-03-31-1.tar.bz2

I tested this tar ball. It passed compilation and mwifiex works fine.

Thanks,

Bing