[oe] RFC: madwifi-ng patch rationalisation and version update

[Rod Whitby]

Jamie Lenehan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:44:36PM +1030, Rod Whitby wrote:
> [...]
>> We also intend updating madwifi-ng to a later snapshot (e.g.
>> r2100-20070210), cause the current version won't build against 2.6.20
>> due to changes in the INIT_WORK kernel macro.
> 
> I've been waiting for them to fix this for a while now so I can move
> forward to newer kernels - so I definitely want the newer verison.
> 
> I think it'd would be a good idea to remove all the older versions as
> well, apart from perhaps r1844 which corrosponds to the last actual
> madwifi release (0.9.2.1). This should help get us back to one set of
> patches as well since in version r1844 they changed the file that arm
> is patching, requiring different patches for r1844 and newer.
> 
> Actually looking at it now it appears as if someone patched the
> version in the files directory for a newer version so the older
> versions (prior to r1844) won't build anymore anyway (patching will
> fail). So the older versions of madwifi-ng and all the version
> specific subdirs can all go as well.

OK, I'll do this too.

So the only madwifi-ng versions remaining will be
madwifi-ng_r1844-20061208.bb and madwifi-ng_r2100-20070210.bb and they
will use common patches from the files directory.

I'll let someone else deal with madwifi-modules ...

-- Rod