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Re: staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2

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On 02/17/2010 02:17 AM, Frederic Leroy wrote:
> Le Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:44:56 +0000,
> Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Frederic Leroy <fredo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> On which tree should I base my work :
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git ?
>>
>> It is probably useful to pull from
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
>> as well - I think wireless-testing's log may be more granular
>  
> I saw it. But I have a problem with this tree. The rtl8192su driver
> don't compile : 
> 
>   CC [M]  drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8180_93cx6.o
> In file included from drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192U.h:43,
>                  from drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8180_93cx6.h:16,
>                  from drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8180_93cx6.c:21:
> drivers/staging/rtl8192su/ieee80211/ieee80211.h:612: erreur: redefinition of ‘struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr’
> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8180_93cx6.o] Erreur 1
> 
> For the moment, I am working on linux-2.6-stable tree for
> removing dead code in staging and check that it breaks nothing.

There was a similar problem with the RTL8187SE driver when the
ieee80211_hdr_3addr struct was added to ieee80211.h. My patch for that problem
is commit b6b1ac69372da99 in wireless-testing. BTW, the mainline kernel will
have this problem when the 2.6.34 merge happens. I recommend fixing it ASAP.

Larry
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