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From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PS3] gelic wireless driver needs MAC80211 support
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:09:26 +0100
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On Saturday 23 February 2008, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> * Ivo van Doorn | 2008-02-23 20:50:34 [+0100]:
> 
> >Additionally, what part of the driver actually uses mac80211?
> >I just browsed to the code, and it seems to work completely without
> >using mac80211. Instead it seems to work directly by registering a
> >net_device structure...
>   CC      drivers/net/ps3_gelic_wireless.o
> /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6/drivers/net/ps3_gelic_wireless.c: In function 'gelic_wl_setup_netdev_ops':
> /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6/drivers/net/ps3_gelic_wireless.c:2660: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'wireless_data'
> /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6/drivers/net/ps3_gelic_wireless.c:2661: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'wireless_handlers'
> make[3]: *** [drivers/net/ps3_gelic_wireless.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> 
> 
> I add this to the patch desctiption and post a depends on patach

Looking at include/linux/netdevice.h:

#ifdef CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT
	/* List of functions to handle Wireless Extensions (instead of ioctl).
	 * See <net/iw_handler.h> for details. Jean II */
	const struct iw_handler_def *	wireless_handlers;
	/* Instance data managed by the core of Wireless Extensions. */
	struct iw_public_data *	wireless_data;
#endif

There is no dependency on mac80211 but on WIRELESS_EXT.
That is a config option most other drivers select, so you best change your patch to
	select WIRELESS_EXT
instead of MAC80211.

Ivo