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Topic: compat-wireless version

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Post #1
quadra2030
14 Nov 2016, 11:32

Hi,

how can I select (when building image from trunk) other/older compat-wireless version? I even have bz2 source archive from older version, which I want to use.

Thanks!

Post #2
dl12345
14 Nov 2016, 12:30

compat-wireless is part of mac80211, which is in package/kernel/mac80211. The version number is defined in the Makefile, which you can change. HOWEVER, it is

1. Kernel version specific
2. Contains many, many patches

Changing the version number if it's a small version number variance may work, but if it's big you'll probably get patch application failures

PKG_VERSION:=2016-05-12
PKG_RELEASE:=1
PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources
PKG_BACKPORT_VERSION:=
PKG_MD5SUM:=2142cf38509896dca108624e7c193611

PKG_SOURCE:=compat-wireless-$(PKG_VERSION)$(PKG_BACKPORT_VERSION).tar.bz2
Post #3
quadra2030
14 Nov 2016, 12:47

Many thanks! I want to use previous version (2016-01-10) with 3.18 kernel.. I've seen it working.

Post #4
dl12345
14 Nov 2016, 12:51
quadra2030 wrote:

Many thanks! I want to use previous version (2016-01-10) with 3.18 kernel.. I've seen it working.

This version is specific to Chaos Calmer, not trunk. You cannot use kernel 3.18 with trunk. You need to checkout branch chaos_calmer. This version of compat-wireless is the default for chaos calmer

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