[Mageia-dev] madwifi-source package ?

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Guillaume Rousse wrote:

> We have a madwifi-source package, which seems to be used as a build 
> dependency only from wpa_supplicant package. Mandriva used to also have a 
> madwifi package which wasn't imported.
>
> Given than madwifi support currently prevent wpa_supplication 1.0 to build 
> (conflicting types declaration for ‘u_int64_t'), and than we seems to be 
> perfectly happy without madwifi driver package in the distribution, is it 
> reasonable to consider than:
> - we no longer need the 'madwifi-source' package ?
> - madwifi support in wpa_supplication isn't needed anymore ?

I dropped support for this driver from hostapd because of that build 
problem, but I don't know if anyone is going to complain about that. 
AFAICT there is now an alternative "free" driver for these devices: ath5k.


     Christiaan