From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat-2.6: adding ethtool.h to compat-2.6.31.h
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:45:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091007144502.GA22394@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890910062240w7b4f0895t7f009b99da8fac40@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:40:04AM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Between 2.6.30 and 2.6.31, linux/netdevice.h started
> > to include linux/ethtool.h (commit b1b67dd45a6b629eb41553856805aaa1614fbb83,
> > "net: factor out ethtool invocation of vlan/macvlan drivers"),
> > and commit 7508e486965b0af13984bc6d9da62a8d8f0dc5f9,
> > "cfg80211: add firmware and hardware version to wiphy", introduces
> > dependency of ETHTOOL_BUSINFO_LEN from linux/ethtool.h
> > to net/cfg80211.h .
>
> John's patch titled "cfg80211: fix compile error from missing
> ethtool.h" seems to address this upstream. I'll wait until he applies
> that to the tree.
As Hin-Tak points-out, linux/netdevice.h is alreadying "doing the needful". :-)
I'll just drop my patch and let this get sorted in compat-wireless.
John
--
John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-07 3:39 [PATCH] compat-2.6: adding ethtool.h to compat-2.6.31.h Hin-Tak Leung
2009-10-07 3:45 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-10-07 5:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-07 6:30 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-07 5:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-07 14:45 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-10-07 15:22 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20091007144502.GA22394@tuxdriver.com \
--to=linville@tuxdriver.com \
--cc=hintak.leung@gmail.com \
--cc=htl10@users.sourceforge.net \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lrodriguez@atheros.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.