linux-wireless compile broken
Pulled and attempted to build linux-wireless this morning:
[greearb@build-32 linux-wireless.p4s]$ make bzImage modules
make -C /home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6 O=/home/greearb/kernel/2.6/linux-wireless.p4s/. bzImage modules
Using /home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6 as source for kernel
GEN /home/greearb/kernel/2.6/linux-wireless.p4s/Makefile CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALL /home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h LD drivers/staging/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.o
/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:250: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘dev_node_t’ /home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c: In function ‘netwave_snapshot’:/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:291: error: ‘netwave_private’ has no member named ‘lastExec’ /home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:302: error: implicit declaration of function ‘copy_from_pc’ /home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:302: error: ‘netwave_private’ has no member named ‘nss’ /home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c: In function ‘netwave_get_wireless_stats’:/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:318: error: ‘netwave_private’ has no member named ‘ramBase’
Thanks,
Ben
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Pulled and attempted to build linux-wireless this morning:
[greearb@build-32 linux-wireless.p4s]$ make bzImage modules
make -C/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6O=/home/greearb/kernel/2.6/linux-wireless.p4s/. bzImage modules
Using/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6as source for kernelGEN /home/greearb/kernel/2.6/linux-wireless.p4s/Makefile CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALL /home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h LD drivers/staging/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.o
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/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:250: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘dev_node_t’/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c: In function ‘netwave_snapshot’:/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:291: error: ‘netwave_private’ has no member named ‘lastExec’/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:302: error: implicit declaration of function ‘copy_from_pc’/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:302: error: ‘netwave_private’ has no member named ‘nss’/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c: In function ‘netwave_get_wireless_stats’:/home/greearb/git/wireless-2.6/drivers/staging/netwave/netwave_cs.c:318: error: ‘netwave_private’ has no member named ‘ramBase’
wireless-2.6 doesn't have this:
commit e5b3e80016198ee55c82dfd653c1dee99a38964b
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Date: Wed May 5 23:17:29 2010 -0700
Staging: netwave: delete the driver
It has sat in the staging directory since October of 2009, and no one has stepped up to take it over, so odds are, no one cares about it anymore. So, it is now deleted as scheduled, and documented in the TODO file.
You should probably just turn-off that driver in your .config. Anyway, I normally recommend that people use wireless-testing for actual development.
John
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:31:05AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
Cc John W. Linville<[email protected]>Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman<[email protected]>You should probably just turn-off that driver in your .config. Anyway, I normally recommend that people use wireless-testing for actual development.
Ok, I'll dig up wireless-testing.
Thanks,
Ben
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