On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:25:50AM +0200, Kadianakis George wrote: > Greetings, > > a function name collision issue spawned off a Gentoo bug [1]. > > Basically, functions in the rtl8187se staging driver collide with functions in the > mac80211 source not allowing kernel compilation with both > CONFIG_RTL8187SE and CONFIG_MAC80211 set. > > Changes that cause this issue are: > a) commit 103bf9f7d35849bce52ad412e4da5063b0716969: > mac80211: remove ieee80211_rx namespace hack > Where ieee80211_rx() starts getting exported instead of __ieee80211_rx() which used to get exported. > b) commit c6e43bc83fd0f156eeb64bc2fa47323fdff16ba8 > Staging: rtl8187se/ieee80211: remove superfluous ieee80211_* defines > Where #define ieee80211_wake_queue ieee80211_wake_queue_rtl > and #define ieee80211_stop_queue ieee80211_stop_queue_rtl > get removed effectively exposing the collision with the mac80211 > functions of the same names. > > The collisions are not restricted to the rtl8187se driver, like the > following example: > c) commit 5d9baea95f45bddcecab050de1af2ef678e85339 > Staging: rtl8192su: make private ieee80211 stack really private > Had the exact same effect as b) to the rtl8192su driver. > d) A quick grep of the three functions in Gentoo bug report shows many > instances of them in the drivers/staging directory. > > [1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296920 I suggest you change the function names in drivers/staging. Joh -- 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
