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Hello!

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On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 10:42 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:23:05 +0100
> Brian Morrison <bdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > If anyone is interested, the latest compat-wireless tarball fails to
> > build. It complains about some missing led defines in the rt2x00
> > directory.
> > 
> > I don't have the exact error messages to hand, but I imagine it's
> > trivial for someone to type make and find out.

It would be still useful if you provided the kernel version.
compat-wireless tries to support the latest kernels, but occasionally
new changes in the driver can break compatibility with the older
kernels, and need to be patched.

> FWIW, the 2008-04-04 and later compat-wireless tarballs fail in the
> same way.
> 
> The error is:
> 
> CC
> [M]  /home/bdm/compat-wireless-2008-04-04/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00leds.o
> /home/bdm/compat-wireless-2008-04-04/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00leds.c: In function ʽrt2x00leds_registerʼ:
> /home/bdm/compat-wireless-2008-04-04/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00leds.c:171: error: ʽstruct led_classdevʼ has no member named ʽblink_setʼ

blink_set is defined in include/linux/led.h in the wireless-testing
kernel.  I assume it's missing in the kernel you are using.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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