On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:45 AM, John W. Linville > <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:40:04AM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > Between 2.6.30 and 2.6.31, linux/netdevice.h started >>> > to include linux/ethtool.h (commit b1b67dd45a6b629eb41553856805aaa1614fbb83, >>> > "net: factor out ethtool invocation of vlan/macvlan drivers"), >>> > and commit 7508e486965b0af13984bc6d9da62a8d8f0dc5f9, >>> > "cfg80211: add firmware and hardware version to wiphy", introduces >>> > dependency of ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN from linux/ethtool.h >>> > to net/cfg80211.h . >>> >>> John's patch titled "cfg80211: fix compile error from missing >>> ethtool.h" seems to address this upstream. I'll wait until he applies >>> that to the tree. >> >> As Hin-Tak points-out, linux/netdevice.h is alreadying "doing the needful". :-) >> >> I'll just drop my patch and let this get sorted in compat-wireless. > > Heh ok applied, thanks. > > Luis > It is probably just a transient problem with recent activities - I had a NULL pointer deref from loading rtl8187 of compat-wireless v2.6.32-rc3-39563-g98c2609 - BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000003d IP: [<ffffffff8147822c>] wext_ioctl_dispatch+0xd9/0x180 PGD 61c2b067 PUD 6246f067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff814783f5>] wext_handle_ioctl+0x4d/0x98 [<ffffffff813e53a5>] dev_ioctl+0x625/0x662 [<ffffffff813cfa45>] sock_ioctl+0x225/0x248 [<ffffffff811237a3>] vfs_ioctl+0x31/0xaa [<ffffffff811e1801>] ? security_d_instantiate+0x37/0x4d [<ffffffff81123c88>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x46c/0x4c3 [<ffffffff81123d44>] sys_ioctl+0x65/0x9c [<ffffffff81012082>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b I'm sure whatever changes made this happen will go away soon, so I'll just re-try in a few days... but if anybody knows what commit causes this (and what fixes it!), I'd like to know. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
