New on the list, first question

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:53 +0100, Cyril HAENEL wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I work on an embedded project (blackfin arch), which use a marvell 8385 
> wifi module (CF interface).
> Some month ago I dowloaded the libertas driver tree, but I stopped to 
> work on the project, no enough time...
> 
> Yesterday I worked on the project again, and I have succesfully compiled 
> the driver as a module, loaded it in the kernel, loaded the firmware, 
> and eth0 appeared.
> But now I want to continue to work with the last driver version, because 
> it seem there is patch to appply to have the driver working without 
> crashes on the blackfin arch.
> 
> My problem is that I can't found the solution to download the last 
> driver. When I use git, I get a complete kernel, but without the last 
> version of the libertas driver, because there is just the usb support.
> 
> Someone can explain me how to get the last libertas driver sources ?

We're fully merged now, so I'd suggest using 2.6.24-rc1 sources.
Backports to 2.6.19 and more recent aren't really that hard, and consist
mainly of (from memory):

1) class_dev changes in main.c
2) setting skb->dev in the RX path for < 2.6.22 in rx.c
3) replace DECLARE_MACBUF or whatever it is with MAC_ARG/MAC_FMT from
ieee80211.h (a few places)
4) set_freezable() is new with 2.6.23 or something (main.c)
5) possibly add in the defs for radiotap flags

It shouldn't be more than 50 LoC change to backport to 2.6.19 even.
Earlier than that, I don't know.  It shouldn't be too hard to look at
the git diffs and figure out what needs changing, if you have specific
issues I can try to go back and dig up some bits.

Dan