From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Frederic Leroy <fredo@starox.org>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Chris Mayo <aklhfex@googlemail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:37:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7C1B56.7090804@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100217091743.3c763cf1@houba>
On 02/17/2010 02:17 AM, Frederic Leroy wrote:
> Le Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:44:56 +0000,
> Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Frederic Leroy <fredo@starox.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On which tree should I base my work :
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git ?
>>
>> It is probably useful to pull from
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
>> as well - I think wireless-testing's log may be more granular
>
> I saw it. But I have a problem with this tree. The rtl8192su driver
> don't compile :
>
> CC [M] drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8180_93cx6.o
> In file included from drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192U.h:43,
> from drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8180_93cx6.h:16,
> from drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8180_93cx6.c:21:
> drivers/staging/rtl8192su/ieee80211/ieee80211.h:612: erreur: redefinition of ‘struct ieee80211_hdr_3addr’
> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8180_93cx6.o] Erreur 1
>
> For the moment, I am working on linux-2.6-stable tree for
> removing dead code in staging and check that it breaks nothing.
There was a similar problem with the RTL8187SE driver when the
ieee80211_hdr_3addr struct was added to ieee80211.h. My patch for that problem
is commit b6b1ac69372da99 in wireless-testing. BTW, the mainline kernel will
have this problem when the 2.6.34 merge happens. I recommend fixing it ASAP.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-17 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-28 12:20 staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2 Chris Mayo
2009-12-28 21:59 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-12-31 14:38 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-02-13 22:44 ` Frederic Leroy
2010-02-14 0:40 ` John W. Linville
2010-02-14 12:18 ` Frederic Leroy
2010-02-14 17:21 ` Larry Finger
2010-02-14 17:44 ` Frederic Leroy
2010-02-17 0:44 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-02-17 8:17 ` Frederic Leroy
2010-02-17 16:37 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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