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Re: wireless-testing: unknown symbol 'wiphy_new'

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On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 21:02 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 11/20/14 14:23, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 14:21 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> >> Build a fresh kernel today, ie. 3.18-rc5-wl from wireless-testing and
> >> got the following message while building brcmfmac:
> >>
> >>     LD [M]  drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.o
> >>     Building modules, stage 2.
> >>     MODPOST 2 modules
> >> WARNING: "wiphy_new"
> >> [drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko] undefined!
> >>
> >> Did not sound encouraging to continue, but did anyway. Not surprisingly
> >> the insmod failed. Checking Module.symvers showed:
> >>
> >> [arend@lb-bun-235 ~/scm/brcm80211-next]
> >> $ grep wiphy_new Module.symvers
> >> 0xba575a46	wiphy_new_nm	net/wireless/cfg80211	EXPORT_SYMBOL
> >>
> >> Rings a bell? We renamed the file wl_cfg80211.c that does wiphy_new()
> >> call to cfg80211.c. Merge issue?
> >
> > It's probably just a build issue?
> >
> > wiphy_new() is a static inline pointing to wiphy_new_nm()
> 
> Indeed a build issue, but wiphy_new_nm() was recently introduced, right? 
> Well, actually we were on 3.18-rc1 wireless-testing before I merged today.

Yes, it was recently introduced, but it sounds like you merged and
didn't get a full rebuild?

johannes

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