Hello,
PR> It depends on your definitions of recent. Latest changes were made in
PR> the standalone branch, but they were merges from for_linus. They likely
PR> break support for 2.4 kernels, but I intend to fix it soon.
In my opinion new drivers could break 2.4 kernels support - current
line is 2.6.x (fixed many bugs, many drivers added, etc) and everybody
could install 2.6.11 stable kernel (which is good for stability and
security purposes). Is it any reason to use 2.4 kernels now?
PR> I think we should reorganize all the development after the 0.15 release.
PR> Maintaining 3 branches takes too much time.
OK, when you plan to release 0.15 version of orinoco drivers?
PR> No, it's the code that should eventually be in the kernel. There are
PR> some exceptions caused by changes made on the way from orinoco CVS to
PR> the kernel. For example, ethtool support will use handlers in the
PR> kernel rather than ioctle
PR> I was surprised initially that you asked it, but I see that CVS
PR> documentation is indeed a bit unclear for beginners. The "-r" option
PR> for checkout can be used with branch names just the same way as with
PR> tags. So that would be:
PR> cvs -z3
-d:ext:anoncvs-9YpCmyJ0EDpAyENKy0+HVUB+6BGkLq7r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/orinoco
co -r for_linus orinoco
Thanks!
PR> I mean that:
PR> 1) I haven't tested it for months.
PR> 2) It's only available on the HEAD branch, and some changes made on
PR> standalone and for_linus branches haven't been merged to HEAD yet.
PR> 3) It needs rewriting to be ever pushed to the kernel.
PR> 4) There were many compiler warnings when compiling it (but it should be
PR> fixed now).
OK, thanks.
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