Re: wireless-testing: unknown symbol 'wiphy_new'

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 11/20/14 14:23, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 14:21 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Build a fresh kernel today, ie. 3.18-rc5-wl from wireless-testing and
>> got the following message while building brcmfmac:
>>
>>     LD [M]  drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.o
>>     Building modules, stage 2.
>>     MODPOST 2 modules
>> WARNING: "wiphy_new"
>> [drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko] undefined!
>>
>> Did not sound encouraging to continue, but did anyway. Not surprisingly
>> the insmod failed. Checking Module.symvers showed:
>>
>> [arend@lb-bun-235 ~/scm/brcm80211-next]
>> $ grep wiphy_new Module.symvers
>> 0xba575a46	wiphy_new_nm	net/wireless/cfg80211	EXPORT_SYMBOL
>>
>> Rings a bell? We renamed the file wl_cfg80211.c that does wiphy_new()
>> call to cfg80211.c. Merge issue?
>
> It's probably just a build issue?
>
> wiphy_new() is a static inline pointing to wiphy_new_nm()

Indeed a build issue, but wiphy_new_nm() was recently introduced, right? 
Well, actually we were on 3.18-rc1 wireless-testing before I merged today.

Thanks,
Arend