[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#522078: Bug#522078: Bug#522078: rt2860-source: Fails to build for Linux 2.6.29

[Daniel Moerner]

2009/3/31 Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>:
> -=| Timothy Baldwin, Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 05:02:09PM +0100 |=-
>> Package: rt2860-source
>> Version: 1.8.0.0-3
>> Severity: important
>>
>>
>> Fails to build with linux-source-2.6.29, with various errors about
>> missing structure members.
>
> rt2860 module is built into 2.6.29 so you don't actually need to build
> it by yourself :)
>
> Since the driver went into the mainline kernel, I was thinking when
> would be appropriate time to remove it from unstable. Maybe when
> linux-image-2.6.29-* migrates to testing?

Well from the looks of it it won't last too long in the mainline
kernel in Debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521553

Does this mean that we would keep rt2860-source (with a modified build
system), or that the firmware would go into firmware-nonfree, or what?

Daniel

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