On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:43 PM, 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. > > Luis > Thanks everybody! Works alright now, after 'compat-2.6: stop shipping bleeding edge iw_handler.h' . There are some harmless warnings from using the old header, but otherwise it is working as it should: CC [M] /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.o /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.c: In function ‘__cfg80211_connect_result’: /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.c:370: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘wireless_send_event’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type include/net/iw_handler.h:443: note: expected ‘char *’ but argument is of type ‘const u8 *’ /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.c:376: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘wireless_send_event’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type include/net/iw_handler.h:443: note: expected ‘char *’ but argument is of type ‘const u8 *’ /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.c: In function ‘__cfg80211_roamed’: /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.c:520: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘wireless_send_event’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type include/net/iw_handler.h:443: note: expected ‘char *’ but argument is of type ‘const u8 *’ /home/Hin-Tak/tmp-git/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/sme.c:527: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘wireless_send_event’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type include/net/iw_handler.h:443: note: expected ‘char *’ but argument is of type ‘const u8 *’ Hin-Tak -- 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
