Re: [PATCH] wireless: make WEXT_SPY and WEXT_PRIV select WEXT_CORE

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:55 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> John W. Linville wrote:
>>> Should prevent this build error reported by Randy...
>>>
>>> net/wireless/wext-priv.c:206: error: implicit declaration of function 'call_commit_handler'
>>> make[3]: *** [net/wireless/wext-priv.o] Error 1
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
>> Sorry, it did not work for me.
> 
>> linux-next-20091007/net/wireless/wext-priv.c:206: error: implicit declaration of function 'call_commit_handler'
>> make[3]: *** [net/wireless/wext-priv.o] Error 1
>>
>> Drivers like hostap and orinoco (hermes) select WEXT_PRIV regardless
>> of the setting of WEXT_CORE.  oh, and staging/ drivers do that also.
> 
> But they also select WIRELESS_EXT, which should cause WEXT_CORE to be
> turned on. Is it possible that is failing?

# CONFIG_WIRELESS is not set
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y
CONFIG_WEXT_SPY=y
CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV=y

WEXT_CORE is not enabled.  I haven't found the culprit, but I suspect "select".

but what in WIRELESS_EXT would also cause WEXT_CORE to be enabled?

~Randy