linux-kernel - Re: Bcm43xx softMac Driver in 2.6.18

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Date:	Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:31:09 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Erik Mouw <erik@...ddisk-recovery.com>
CC:	dbtsai@...il.com, John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bcm43xx softMac Driver in 2.6.18

Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 08:20:08AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> This patch, which was originally sent to John Linville on 9/14/06,
>> has been taken against 2.6.18. It changes more lines
>> than would be absolutely necessary to affect the fix; however, it
>> ends up with this section looking exactly like the current code (with
>> pending patches) that is in wireless-2.6.
> 
> Sorry, but your patch doesn't apply cleanly against 2.6.18:
> 
> erik@...hur:~/git/linux-2.6 > patch -p1 --dry-run < ../bcm43xx-2.6.18.diff
> patching file drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 3182.
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c.rej

Arrrgh! My mailer messed up the white space and put spaces instead of tabs. The correct patch is 
attached here so it doesn't happen again. This one has been tested against a clean download of 2.6.18.

Larry


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