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Re: [Rt2400-devel] 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

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On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 23:04 +0000, Chris Clayton wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > On Thursday 21 February 2008, Chris Vine wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > This probably explains the problem another user reported with rt61.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps something similar like:
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10058
> > > in there a reference is made to the following patch:
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/broken-out/revert-send-a-single-notification-on-device-state-changes.patch
> > > 
> > > Does applying that help?
> > 
> > I'm afraid not, Ivo. The test I ran last night was against 2.6.25.-rc2-git4 and
> > that already has this patch applied. Furthermore, I have another card that uses
> > the rtl8180 driver and that works reliably. I, therefore, suspect that my problem
> > lies within the rt61pci driver or the rt2x00 infrastructure.
> 
> Does the same happen with 2.0.14 under kernel 2.6.24?

Unfortunately, a 2.6.24.2 tree with the drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00 directory replaced with that from 2.6.25-rc2-git4 doesn't build:

In file included from drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c:29:
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h:942: warning: `struct ieee80211_bss_conf' declared inside parameter list
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h:942: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

[...]

drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c: In function `rt2x00lib_configuration_scheduled':
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c:484: error: storage size of `bss_conf' isn't known
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c:494: error: `BSS_CHANGED_ERP_PREAMBLE' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c:494: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c:494: error: for each function it appears in.)
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c:484: warning: unused variable `bss_conf'
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c: In function `rt2x00lib_beacondone_scheduled':
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c:511: warning: passing arg 2 of `ieee80211_beacon_get' makes integer from pointer without a cast

> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 

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