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Re: Backporting wl1271 driver to kernel-2.6.32 using compat-wireless

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Hi,

On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:

> On 12/22/2010 05:13 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align
>> 
>> I notice you have an android kernel, is that kernel a vanilla kernel
>> or did it get netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() cherry picked into it?


Yes, it is an android enabled 2.6.32 kernel. It also includes the TI 
OMAP35xx/AM35xx platform support package SDK v03.00.01.06/


> netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align is not defined in the 2.6.32.27 vanilla
> kernel. Someone else (google or ti) must have backported it to this
> kernel and added it to your kernel.
> 
> I do not want to add some special handling into compat-wireless just for
> some android kernel. Just remove netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() and
> NETDEV_POST_INIT from include/linux/compat-2.6.33.h and the compile
> problems you posted should be fixed.

I made the following modifications, but get another error:

diff --git a/include/linux/compat-2.6.33.h b/include/linux/compat-2.6.33.h
index c2dbc1b..468a074 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat-2.6.33.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat-2.6.33.h
@@ -52,19 +52,6 @@ static inline void compat_release_firmware(const struct firmware *fw)
 #define IFF_DONT_BRIDGE 0x800          /* disallow bridging this ether dev */
 /* source: include/linux/if.h */
 
-/* this will never happen on older kernels */
-#define NETDEV_POST_INIT 0xffff
-
-static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev,
-                unsigned int length)
-{
-       struct sk_buff *skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, length + NET_IP_ALIGN);
-
-       if (NET_IP_ALIGN && skb)
-               skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
-       return skb;
-}
-
 #if defined(CONFIG_PCCARD) || defined(CONFIG_PCCARD_MODULE)
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_PCMCIA) || defined(CONFIG_PCMCIA_MODULE)


CC [M]  /tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.o
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c: In function ‘ieee80211_led_init’:
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:59: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘struct led_trigger’ 
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:63: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:64: error: implicit declaration of function ‘led_trigger_register’
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:70: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘struct led_trigger’ 
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:74: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:81: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘struct led_trigger’ 
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:85: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:92: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘struct led_trigger’ 
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:96: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c: In function ‘ieee80211_led_exit’:
/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.c:107: error: implicit declaration of function ‘led_trigger_unregister’
make[3]: *** [/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211/led.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork/net/mac80211] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/tool/patches/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc6-3-patchwork] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tool/patches/android-rowboat-2.6.32-kernel-patchwork'
make: *** [modules] Error 2


Elvis Dowson--
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