On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:43 AM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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... oh ok thanks, thought the struct changed too -- then is be easy to backport 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
