On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:57:13 -0400
Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Please don't use bcc: in public emails. Put your addressees to to: and
> cc: so that nobody wonders why he or she is getting your e-mail.
Yes, it was an error on my part when I accidentally sent the mail back
to myself and then I did a redirect to the list rather than re-address
the mail. Not intentional, but I didn't think it through as I was in a
hurry.
>
> 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.
This was with 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 on Fedora 8.
>
> > 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 ‘rt2x00leds_register’:
> > /home/bdm/compat-wireless-2008-04-04/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00leds.c:171: error: ‘struct led_classdev’ has no member named ‘blink_set’
>
> 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.
>
Looks like it isn't, so possibly there needs to be a way of providing
missing headers for kernels without their own complete set. Not sure how
that might be done.
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