Re: [PATCH]compat-2.6: fix compiling configurations for iwlwifi

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Yingying Zhao
>> <yingying.zhao@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Also, was this tested with 2.6.22?
>>>>
>>>>   Luis
>>> No. I just tested on 2.6.24.
>>> I'll wait for iwlwifi Kconfig is finalized by Tomas and retest this on
>>> 2.6.22.
>>
>> OK cool -- just a heads up then, I hadn't enabled LEDs or RFKILL
>> options for drivers as the framework needs backporting. Once
>> backported I expect it will compile well for older kernels.
>
> compat-wireless wasn't actually compiling for 2.6.22 anymore. I just
> fixed that. It loads mac80211. Either I did a mistake or we get an
> oops now when loading a driver on 2.6.22.

Yeah ok I can confirm there is a bug there on 2.6.22. We hit:

BUG_ON(!local || local->mdev == dev);

on ieee80211_i.h in IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF()

Don't have time to debug this right now though.

  Luis