From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from imta-35.everyone.net ([216.200.145.35]:44287 "EHLO imta-35.everyone.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751002AbaKFEo4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2014 23:44:56 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (omta006.sj2.proofpoint.com [127.0.0.1]) by imta-38.everyone.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id sA64g8le021458 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:44:55 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-Id: <20141105204455.80F94044@m0048140.ppops.net> (sfid-20141106_054458_957212_C78ACA49) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:44:55 -0800 From: "Art Vandelay" Reply-To: To: Subject: Compiling backports-3.14.22-1 against kernel v2.6.32 Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Everyone, I'm currently running RHEL6 since it's still the latest stable release and can't upgrade to RHEL7. And the latest kernel version available for RHEL6 is v2.6.32. So when I tried to build the driver for RTL8723AE from backports-3.14.22-1 (because the front page says to use 3.14 for kernel versions 2.6.26+), I got these compilation errors: backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h: In function 'backport_frag_mem_limit': backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h:11: error: 'struct netns_frags' has no member named 'mem' backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h: In function 'backport_sub_frag_mem_limit': backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h:17: error: 'struct netns_frags' has no member named 'mem' backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h: In function 'backport_add_frag_mem_limit': backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h:23: error: 'struct netns_frags' has no member named 'mem' backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h: In function 'backport_init_frag_mem_limit': backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h:29: error: 'struct netns_frags' has no member named 'mem' backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h: In function 'backport_sum_frag_mem_limit': backports-3.14.22-1/backport-include/net/inet_frag.h:35: error: 'struct netns_frags' has no member named 'mem' make[6]: *** [backports-3.14.22-1/compat/compat-2.6.35.o] Error 1 make[5]: *** [backports-3.14.22-1/compat] Error 2 make[4]: *** [_module_backports-3.14.22-1] Error 2 I understand that only kernel versions >= 3.0 are being supported at the moment, but backports-3.14 was supposed to successfully build against kernel-2.6.32 and it doesn't in my case. Anyway, it doesn't seem like it would be a difficult fix; any help would be appreciated. Thanks! _____________________________________________________________ Brought to you by TBNS.net