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

[Andrew Paulsen]

On 2/13/07, Rod Whitby <rod at whitby.id.au> wrote:
> 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

This cleanup appears to have been repealed.  Is there a reason for the change?