Bug#463353: madwifi-source: cannot build with 2.6.24-1-686

[Kel Modderman]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 20:41:00 Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Kel Modderman said:
> > Thank you for this very useful information.
> > 
> > Even when this obstacle is passed, the current madwifi version will fail to
> > build. I've been working on getting the madwifi.org team to work towards a
> > release in the coming week that would not fail to compile against 2.6.24.
> > 
> > Am also thinking of packaging the SVN trunk variant of madwifi, possibly for
> > experimental, or possibly for unstable (instead of the upcoming "stable"
> > upstream release). I'd be interested in hearing the opinion of any developer
> > who is interested in uploading a new madwifi package to the archive in the
> > next few days.
> 
> Just to let you know, 2.6.24 (in Debian - 2.6.25 for vanilla kernel) is
> shipping the ath5k module, which is AIUI replacing madwifi.  I don't know
> if that affects your plans, but I wanted to be sure you were aware of it.

Am pretty well informed about ath5k movements with regards to mainline
inclusion (am involved with madwifi.org team that handles development
of the non-free madwifi and free ath5k module) but not with debian's
movements. Thanks for the heads up.

Madwifi, unfortunately, will still be in demand for a short while, so while
I'll be supporting its removal from Debian archive (and my todo list) ASAP,
will still try and provide a service for some users who require it until ath5k
is able to satisfy their requirements in the meantime.

Thanks, Kel.