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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez <jlalarcon@fastservice.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: driver 88XX.au fails to compile on kernel 5.18.0 ppa Ubuntu
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 16:24:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YpoZtZiYZbdCmhfX@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220603160558.056f6121@Discovery.lordofunix.org>

On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 04:05:58PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> This driver (for certain USB wireless devices) gets a clean build with
> Ubuntu ppa kernels till 5.17.x. But with the new version 5.18.0 don´t
> finish the compilation and end with errors.
> 
> At the begining of the make command execution there are a warning that
> say that the kernel was compilated using gcc version 11.3.0 and the
> system (Ubuntu 22.04) is using gcc 11.2.0. Can be this the cause of
> this error in the building?.

Yes, that is one problem, odds are there are others as the kernel does
not know how external drivers interact with it, so apis do change and go
away over time.

Please contact the authors of the external driver for help, they are the
only ones that can do that.

good luck!

greg k-h

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-03 14:05 driver 88XX.au fails to compile on kernel 5.18.0 ppa Ubuntu Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
2022-06-03 14:24 ` Greg KH [this message]

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