[Bug 1999] New: Review Request: wl-kmod - Kernel module for Broadcom wireless devices

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1999

           Summary: Review Request:  wl-kmod - Kernel module for Broadcom
                    wireless devices
           Product: Package Reviews
           Version: Current
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: GNU/Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Review Request
        AssignedTo: rpmfusion-package-review at rpmfusion.org
        ReportedBy: nicolas.vieville at univ-valenciennes.fr
                CC: rpmfusion-package-review at rpmfusion.org
        Depends on: 1907
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


SPEC: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25699833/rpmfusion/wl-kmod/wl-kmod.spec
SRPMS:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25699833/rpmfusion/wl-kmod/wl-kmod-5.100.82.38-1.fc15.src.rpm

Description: These packages contain Broadcom's IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux
device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-, 
BCM4322-, BCM43224-, and BCM43225-, BCM43227- and BCM43228-based hardware.

$ rpmlint rpmbuild/SPECS/wl-kmod.spec 
0 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

$ rpmlint rpmbuild/SRPMS/wl-kmod-5.100.82.38-1.fc15.src.rpm 
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

$ rpmlint rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kmod-wl-5.100.82.38-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm 
kmod-wl.x86_64: W: spelling-error Summary(en_US) Metapackage -> Meta package,
Meta-package, Prepackage
kmod-wl.x86_64: W: no-documentation
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 2 warnings.

$ rpmlint
rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/kmod-wl-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64-5.100.82.38-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm 
kmod-wl-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64.x86_64: W: summary-not-capitalized C wl kernel
module(s) for 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64
kmod-wl-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64.x86_64: W: unstripped-binary-or-object
/lib/modules/2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64/extra/wl/wl.ko
kmod-wl-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64.x86_64: W: no-documentation
kmod-wl-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64.x86_64: E: kernel-modules-not-in-kernel-packages
/lib/modules/2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64/extra/wl/wl.ko
kmod-wl-2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64.x86_64: E: kernel-modules-not-in-kernel-packages
/lib/modules/2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64/extra/wl
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 2 errors, 3 warnings.

$ rpmlint rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/wl-kmod-debuginfo-5.100.82.38-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm 
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

This package is an upgrade from the actual wl-kmod-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.9.src
originally provided in FC-15 to the 5.100.82.38 version. 
This version is not the very last one (ie 5.100.82.111) because there seems to
have some difficulties with it.
Even if the 5.100.82.111 package build correctly, kernel panic happened when I
tried it on FC-15-x86_64 and according to this thread
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 others distributions have the
same problems. Broadcom needs probably to fix this last version.

So, I preferred to keep the 5.100.82.38 version as this one is working for me
from march 2011 and FC-14 to FC-15 today.

The spec file is largely inspired by the rpmfusion wl-kmod for FC-14 and FC-15
ones.

The errors reported by rpmlint are the same as the previous versions of this
package and seems to be related to kmodtool "magic". Comments on this point
would be precious for me.

Since Broadcom doesn't provide anymore the original sources files on its site,
I had to upload the copy I had on a DropBox share and provide direct links in
the spec file. I don't know if this is correct.

This review request comes after this bug report:

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1907

I'm a newcomer in such things and not very familiar with packaging, but I'm
volunteer for this package.

Same request made for the broadcom-wl package.


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