From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4918 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946759AbXBQOiL (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:38:11 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:14:48 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless Subject: Re: wireless-dev.git breaks wireless extensions Message-ID: <20070217141448.GB4566@tuxdriver.com> References: <1171670057.28539.5.camel@dv> <1171670990.3575.50.camel@johannes.berg> <1171673414.28874.4.camel@dv> <20070217010221.GA3405@tuxdriver.com> <1171676740.29232.4.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1171676740.29232.4.camel@dv> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:45:40PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 20:02 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > Sounds like the new version of cfg80211's wext compatibility hook > > is broken...? > > I've applied two patches by Johannes "fix wext_ioctl() exit path" and > "fix cfg80211 modular compile w/o wext-compat", and MadWifi is working > fine now. Soungs good...thanks for the report! > On the other hand, DadWifi won't compile: > > /home/proski/src/dadwifi/ath/if_ath_d80211.c: In function > 'ath_d80211_calc_bssid_mask': > /home/proski/src/dadwifi/ath/if_ath_d80211.c:305: error: 'struct > ieee80211_hw' has no member named 'perm_addr' > > The same problem exists with iwlwifi. I'm away from my bcm43xx card at > the moment. Yep...this goes with the territory for out-of-kernel drivers. FWIW, the changes are straight-forward. See the commits near the top of the tree for examples. > I'll post more if I find any problems with either upgrading the driver > or wireless extensions for d80211 enabled drivers. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com