Fwd: Re: Log for successful build of madwifi-tools_1:0.9.3+dfsg-1 (dist=unstable)

[Kel Modderman]

On Saturday 14 April 2007 17:25, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007, Kel Modderman wrote:
> > See below for comment from waldi:
> >
> > I don't think this will work on s390. Please fix the architecture
> > description to the actual supported ones.
>
>  I suppose s390 doesn't have any PCI or PCMCIA slots where a madwifi
>  card could be sticked?  Or wifi would be useless on giant clusters?

Yep, hardware incompatible I presume.

>
>  I suppose he expects we update control to list some architectures, but
>  it's a so widespread problem that I'm surprized he bothers to requests
>  that.
>
>  It's true that the madwifi-source has arch-specific HALs, so
>  madwifi-tools will be useless on all arches not supported by HAL.
>
>  Perhaps we can list these arches in madwifi-tools' Architecture field?

That is essentially what he is asking for. We'll have to whitelist according 
to HAL arch-specific binaries. It would become trickier with OpenHal, as we'd 
have to allow for any arch that is hardware capable of using such a device.

Thanks, Kel.