Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c build failure

From: John W. Linville
Date: Wed Aug 22 2007 - 16:14:51 EST


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:31:24PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:

> > CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.o
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c: In function `rt2x00mac_tx_rts_cts':
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:61: warning: passing arg 2 of `ieee80211_ctstoself_get' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:61: warning: passing arg 3 of `ieee80211_ctstoself_get' makes integer from pointer without a cast
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:61: warning: passing arg 4 of `ieee80211_ctstoself_get' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:61: warning: passing arg 5 of `ieee80211_ctstoself_get' from incompatible pointer type
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:61: error: too many arguments to function `ieee80211_ctstoself_get'
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:65: warning: passing arg 2 of `ieee80211_rts_get' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:65: warning: passing arg 3 of `ieee80211_rts_get' makes integer from pointer without a cast
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:65: warning: passing arg 4 of `ieee80211_rts_get' makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:65: warning: passing arg 5 of `ieee80211_rts_get' from incompatible pointer type
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.c:65: error: too many arguments to function `ieee80211_rts_get'
> > make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00mac.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
> > make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>
> This has been fixed for quite some time already.
> John, I can't check this myself now, but which rt2x00
> patches have gone into the -mm tree? Since I believe
> the patch that changed ieee80211_ctstoself_get was
> followed by a patch to fix rt2x00 within the same series...

Andrew had a lot of problems working-out conflicts between wireless-dev
and net-2.6.24. I have since taken steps to help with this, but I
think his pull was from before the wireless-dev rebase. Hopefully the
next -mm will be better.

John
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