Comment 40 for bug 144621

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:39:20AM -0000, nevion wrote:
> @aldebx,Matt,
>
> I did as you both said with the driver and linux-headers. Upon make,
> it'll error because net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.h is not included the
> headers package (bug? It would've made compiling the driver _way_
> easier).

It's a bug either in the headers package (if it's an exported interface) or
in the driver (if it isn't).

> So then I installed the linux-source package and used make
> KSRC=path_to_kernel. I was met with the need to copy over a bunch of
> files (.config from /boot, scripts/mod/modpost, Module.symvers, and
> forced to make prepare (there were probably more files that needed
> copied over, but make will error saying which are missing, you just have
> to merge the missing files from the headers package to the linux-source
> package (preserving relative paths)). After that, depmod, and removing
> the module from the kernel, I discovered that the old module in
> ubuntu/wireless would be loaded instead of the newer module on
> subsequent modprobes... so I had to remove it too&depmod. After all
> that, things are working peachy. This was alot of work though for a
> simple module update... At the very least perhaps fix the header
> inclusion so as to make others testing of the driver easier? Does that
> require waiting for gusty-updates on the 31st?

The "gutsy-updates" milestone is used to mark bugs which are being
considered for an update to 7.10; there is no schedule associated with it
(despite what Launchpad may say).

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 - mdz