On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 *’ The last argument to wireless_send_event() was changed to be const on 2.6.32, cant think of a way to avoid this warning. 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
