On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 23:04 -0500, Jared Greenwald wrote:
> So I messed up building before, but my patch is still valid for the
> usb drivers. Anyway, the problem now is that the orinoco_cs driver
> won't compile.
>
> I realized that this is already in the kernel tree so it should "just
> work". Not so. There are major differences between the cvs version
> of orinoco_cs and the main kernel tree version. The hermes.h file
> that is included by both prism_usb and orinoco_usb is also out of
> date, which causes more problems for prism_usb.
>
> Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way, but why are the files in the
> cvs older than the files in the kernel tree?
Because the latest changes were made by kernel developers not associated
with the project. For example, PCMCIA changes are made in all kernel
drivers at once.
The "for_linus" branch in CVS is more up-to-date with the kernel. Once
I submit the differences to the kernel and they are applied, there will
be no difference.
Updating other CVS branches is a lower priority. It takes an additional
effort because of compatibility issues.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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