RE: Build fails on 2.6.16 Fedora kernel

Richard Kennedy <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:47:24 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Dave,

I've just tried the latest updated kernel 2.6.16-1-2080_FC5 (x86) and
builds and runs OK -- at least for me anyway.

Do you want to mail me your build log and I'll see if I can spot what's
going wrong.

Richard


On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 13:05 +0100, Dave Jenkins wrote:
> --- Richard Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does this patch help your problem? This patch reorders wlan_compat so
> > that there's an #if __KERNEL__ to guard everything that needs it. And
> > stops gcc throwing so many warnings. Maybe it will help. 
> 
> Thanks, I tried this in combination with Indan's .owner patch. It gets
> rid of the warnings about WLAN_HOSTIF, WLAN_PCI etc not being defined,
> but does not solve the problem of the p80211 build not happening and
> consequent errors. It reduced the length of the build log from 11680
> lines to 11626.
> 
> > Is that a development kernel or have I missed any update somewhere?
> 
> It's from updates-released:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4.i686.rpm
> 
> I'm not personally very bothered about this as I'm sticking with
> 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 until a bug gets fixed that blocks s2k disconnects
> and so causes my Athlon XP to run 15 degrees C hotter. This is still
> broken in kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4. But I thought it was worth
> reporting the build problem in case other people run into it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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