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bcmwl package

  1. Bug #1095751
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 1095751

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Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote : Re: bcmwl fails to build with 3.8 kernels [error: ‘struct cfg80211_ibss_params’ has no member named ‘channel’]

SRU request:

[Impact]

 * As a result of this bug, bcmwl-kernel-source will fail to build the module against linux-generic-lts-raring in Ubuntu 12.04.

[Test Case]

 * Install linux-generic-lts-raring

 * Enable the precise-proposed repository and install bcmwl-kernel-source (6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu0.0.2).

 * If the package installs without errors from DKMS, then the patches work correctly.

[Regression Potential]

 * The patches that I backported from 13.10 will preserve the current driver behaviour on linux-generic (3.2) and linux-generic-lts-quantal (3.5), thanks to the use of specific macros in the code which check the kernel version. As a result, no regressions of any kind can be expected on these kernels.