PRISM2_NON_VOLATILE_DOWNLOAD in kernel 2.6.14

David Goodenough david.goodenough at btconnect.com
Thu Jan 5 05:04:04 EST 2006


On Thursday 05 January 2006 05:08, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:54:47PM +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> > 2.6.14 does not need a separate package for hostap, as it has been
> > integrated into the kernel.  The problem is that it is a crippled
> > version.
>
> What do you mean with "crippled version" here? I'm not aware of any
> functionality having been removed from the version in the kernel tree..
The functionality was not removed, it is just not enabled.  In the versions
that I used to download to compile outside the kernel the symbol was
#defined.  In the version in the kernel the line with the #define is
commented out so the functionality is never enabled.

David



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