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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Frederic Leroy <fredo@starox.org>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
	Chris Mayo <aklhfex@googlemail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:37:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7C1B56.7090804@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100217091743.3c763cf1@houba>

On 02/17/2010 02:17 AM, Frederic Leroy wrote:
> Le Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:44:56 +0000,
> Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Frederic Leroy <fredo@starox.org>
>> 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

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-17 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-28 12:20 staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2 Chris Mayo
2009-12-28 21:59 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-12-31 14:38   ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-02-13 22:44     ` Frederic Leroy
2010-02-14  0:40       ` John W. Linville
2010-02-14 12:18         ` Frederic Leroy
2010-02-14 17:21           ` Larry Finger
2010-02-14 17:44             ` Frederic Leroy
2010-02-17  0:44           ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-02-17  8:17             ` Frederic Leroy
2010-02-17 16:37               ` Larry Finger [this message]

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