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

[Kel Modderman]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 22:01:02 Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Kel Modderman said:
> > 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.
> 
> Cool, wasn't trying to teach you to suck eggs :)  Thanks for looking
> after madwifi and now ath5k - you've kept several of my laptops
> connected over the years.

About the only way I can see Madwifi being a useful package now that ath5k is
on the scene is to have madwifi actively claim priority over ath5k by
blacklisting it via conffile file in /etc/modprobe.d/ (installed by madwifi-tools
package).

This is staged for next madwifi-tools upload pending discussion.

This way, users of madwifi (who actively install it on their systems) won't be
shocked by sudden changes with coming with new linux-image with ath5k.
madwifi-tools is a hard dependency of the generated modules package, removing
madwifi-tools would cause removal of all active madwifi components on system
and allow ath5k a chance.

New systems, of course, won't get madwifi-tools installed.

Do you think this would be an ok action to take at this stage?

Proposed updates are at:
http://sidux.net/kelmo/debian/pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.9.4~rc1-1.dsc
http://sidux.net/kelmo/debian/pool/contrib/m/madwifi-tools/madwifi-tools_0.9.3+dfsg-4.dsc

for anyone interested in trying out with linux-image-2.6.24.

Thanks, Kel.