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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 23:46 +0200, Davide Pesavento wrote:
>> $ make
>>  GEN  version.h
>>  CC   iw.o
>>  CC   info.o
>> info.c: In function 'print_phy_handler':
>> info.c:108: error: 'NL80211_ATTR_SUPPORTED_IFTYPES' undeclared (first
>> use in this function)
>> info.c:108: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> info.c:108: error: for each function it appears in.)
>> make: *** [info.o] Error 1
>>
>> I guess I have to build iw against >=2.6.27-rcX kernel headers, right?
>
> Actually this one is new in wireless-testing, I have a branch you can
> build against 2.6.27 but it's not very up-to-date.
>
> Any ideas how to handle this are welcome. Should it just ship the header
> file? I'd prefer not to, otoh doing it isn't really harmful because when
> adding a new command clearly you need to edit iw sources.
>
> johannes
>
>

IMO that's the best thing to do - in fact, that's exactly why I
branched. Distros likely won't ship kernel headers that don't match
the kernel binaries and sources. (This is likely why Debian is
shipping my branched version, rather than the official.)

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