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Bug 217460 - Incorrect description for IWLWIFI symbol for 2.6.24 kernels
Summary: Incorrect description for IWLWIFI symbol for 2.6.24 kernels
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial
Assignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers
URL: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel...
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Reported: 2008-04-12 21:38 UTC by a_tevelev
Modified: 2008-04-14 21:11 UTC (History)
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Description a_tevelev 2008-04-12 21:38:03 UTC 
Help for IWLWIFI symbol in menuconfig for 2.6.24 kernels refers to Documentation/networking/README.iwlwifi file:

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Select to enable drivers based on the iwlwifi project.  This                                                                                         project provides a common foundation for Intel's wireless                                                                                            drivers designed to use the mac80211 subsystem.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                
See <file:Documentation/networking/README.iwlwifi> for                                                                                               information on the capabilities currently enabled in this                                                                                            driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.                                                                                              
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That file does not exist:

# ls /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/README.iwlwifi
ls: cannot access /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/README.iwlwifi: No such file or directory
Comment 1 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-13 09:19:39 UTC 
Dear kernel team, I guess this one should be UPSTREAM, but I'm not sure if you don't prefer to be informed anyway...
Comment 2 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev 2008-04-14 21:11:45 UTC 
This is fixed for 2.6.25, not sure if it's worth a backport.

BTW, their fix is too remove the reference to the non existing file.