From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [0/5] Improvements to the ieee80211 layer Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:27:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20050525092710.GA1926@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050524150711.01632672@griffin.suse.cz> <20050524185241.GB2470@elf.ucw.cz> <20050525082956.GA20739@dwarf.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: NetDev Return-path: To: Jirka Bohac Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050525082956.GA20739@dwarf.suse.cz> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > This is the first series of patches that try to convert it to a generic > > > IEEE 802.11 layer, usable for most of today's wireless cards. > > > > Are they against -rc4-mm2? > > No, they're against -rc3-mm3. The whole ieee80211 layer has been > accidentally removed from -rc4-mm3 (see > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/18/57 ) > > > Would it be possible to put agregate patch on the web somewhere (or > > git tree?). I would certainly be easier to test.... > > Hmm, always thought that small patches would be preferred ;-) > Here you go: http://jikos.cz/~jbohac/tmp/big_80211_patch_01.patch.bz2 > This is combined from all the 11 patches we posted yesterday Well, they certainly are prefered for review, but applying series of 11 patches, with two that need to be get from the web is not that easy.... I could not compile it: CC net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.o net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c: In function `ieee80211_rx_frame_decrypt': net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c:281: error: `dev' undeclared (first use in this function) net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c:281: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c:281: error: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [net/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [net/ieee80211] Error 2 make: *** [net] Error 2 468.99user 31.35system 523.98 (8m43.981s) elapsed 95.49%CPU pavel@amd:/data/l/linux-mm$ After fixing that, ipw2100 seems to work. [Funny, it changed name from eth1 to wlan0?] Good. Pavel