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DISCUSSION Ben Greear 2 participants 3 messages Jul 26, 2010

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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-2.6 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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Quoted 12 lines · Ben Greear

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
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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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Quoted 8 lines · John W. Linville

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:31:05AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

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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