Bug 207413 – linux kernel 2.6.24 has reference to unexistent docs

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) 2008-01-25 21:03:14 UTC]

iwlwifi help in kernel configuration makes reference to Documentation/networking/README.iwlwifi but such file does not exist.

[Comment 1 Mike Pagano 2008-01-26 20:07:54 UTC]

People have been complaining about this for awhile. I have no idea why this is not committed in the mainline tree.

Here's a link to the file.
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/repos/?p=iwlwifi.git;a=blob_plain;f=README.iwlwifi;hb=HEAD

[Comment 2 Mike Pagano 2008-01-30 12:57:04 UTC]

I'm going to close this bug.  I did email the maintainer at Intel and kindly asked him to commit the documentation file. That's about the best I can do. If it ever makes the mainline one of us can reopen this bug and I will backport it if we think its absolutely necessary.

Here's the upstream bug about the same issue:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9765

[Comment 3 Mike Pagano 2008-01-30 15:36:10 UTC]

fyi: a patch has been queued upstream to remove the references to README.iwlwifi

http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=120036405729704&w=2

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2008-05-02 17:32:59 UTC]

this is fixed in 2.6.25