On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:28:33AM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > 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 - /* Structure managed by the in-kernel IEEE 802.11 layer */ - struct ieee80211_device * ieee80211; + /* Legacy structure managed by the ipw2x00-specific IEEE 802.11 layer */ + struct libipw_device * libipw; Really just a name change, FWIW... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
