On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> include/net/mac80211.h: In function 'ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status':
> include/net/mac80211.h:400: error: size of array 'type name' is negative
> include/net/mac80211.h:405: error: size of array 'type name' is negative
>
> due to:
>
> static inline void
> ieee80211_tx_info_clear_status(struct ieee80211_tx_info *info)
> {
> int i;
>
> BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.rates) !=
> offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, control.rates));
> BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.rates) !=
> offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, driver_rates));
> --> BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetof(struct ieee80211_tx_info, status.rates) != 8);
> /* clear the rate counts */
> for (i = 0; i < IEEE80211_TX_MAX_RATES; i++)
> info->status.rates[i].count = 0;
>
> --> BUILD_BUG_ON(
Yep, missing explicit padding in struct ieee80211_tx_info, breaking havoc on
m68k where the alignment requirement for 32-bit values is 2 bytes, not 4.
AFAIK, a fix should be floating around.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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