Bug 398133 – net-misc/r8168: kernel 3.2 support (trivial patch included)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nikos Chantziaras 2012-01-08 09:39:03 UTC]

net-misc/r8168 (8.026.00 as well as 8.027.00) does not build against a 3.2 kernel. I am attaching a trivial patch that adapts one line to the 3.2 API change.

The patch should *only* be applied when building on 3.2 kernels.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Nikos Chantziaras 2012-01-08 09:40:48 UTC]

Created attachment 298303 [details, diff]
Patch for 8.026.00 and 8.027.00 to build on kernel 3.2

[Comment 2 Nikos Chantziaras 2012-01-08 09:50:53 UTC]

Created attachment 298305 [details, diff]
Patch for 8.026.00 and 8.027.00 to build on kernel 3.2

I figured it's better to make the patch build against all kernel versions in order to avoid a kernel version check in the ebuild.  So here's a new patch that can be applied unconditionally and the driver will build against all kernel versions including 3.2.

[Comment 3 Ahmet Inan 2012-01-10 15:25:42 UTC]

Created attachment 298505 [details]
r8168-8.027.00-r1.ebuild

and here is the ebuild for r8168-8.027.00

[Comment 4 Nikos Chantziaras 2012-01-10 15:30:27 UTC]

Why do you need a src_prepare?  Doesn't

PATCHES=( "${FILESDIR}/kernel_3.2.patch" )

work?

[Comment 5 Ahmet Inan 2012-02-17 14:28:47 UTC]

r8168-8.028.00 is out and works with 3.2 kernel.
so this patch is not needed anymore.

[Comment 6 Nikos Chantziaras 2012-02-17 14:43:14 UTC]

8.028.00 is in portage now :-)  So I'm closing this.