On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:51 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: >> >>> Ok, that's odd. Is it possible that somehow cfg80211 is picking up an >>> #ifdef'ed copy of "struct iw_handler_def", and thus the struct it is >>> defining is simply too small? >> >> That is apparently what is happening since compat-wireless ships >> iw_handler.h. This is wrong, as wext functionality is built into the >> kernel image so you can't use a newer header file with it. > > Dah, thanks for looking into this! This must've been there this way > for ages and we hadn't noticed until now. This is now fixed, and a new > tarball pushed out. I'll fix on the stable stuff as well, although I > doubt the header has changed much except now. OK so iw_handler added the libipw pointer, so libipw and friends are now messed up on compat-wireless. Do we care? I'll disable them for now. Can't think of a way to backport this easily. CC [M] /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.o /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: In function ‘ipw2100_alloc_device’: /home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c:6060: error: ‘struct iw_public_data’ has no member named ‘libipw’ make[4]: *** [/home/mcgrof/devel/compat-wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.o] Error 1 Luis -- 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
