linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wireless: make WEXT_SPY and WEXT_PRIV select WEXT

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Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:54:53 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: make WEXT_SPY and WEXT_PRIV select WEXT_CORE

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:55 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> John W. Linville wrote:
>>> Should prevent this build error reported by Randy...
>>>
>>> net/wireless/wext-priv.c:206: error: implicit declaration of function 'call_commit_handler'
>>> make[3]: *** [net/wireless/wext-priv.o] Error 1
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
>> Sorry, it did not work for me.
> 
>> linux-next-20091007/net/wireless/wext-priv.c:206: error: implicit declaration of function 'call_commit_handler'
>> make[3]: *** [net/wireless/wext-priv.o] Error 1
>>
>> Drivers like hostap and orinoco (hermes) select WEXT_PRIV regardless
>> of the setting of WEXT_CORE.  oh, and staging/ drivers do that also.
> 
> But they also select WIRELESS_EXT, which should cause WEXT_CORE to be
> turned on. Is it possible that is failing?

# CONFIG_WIRELESS is not set
CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=y
CONFIG_WEXT_SPY=y
CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV=y

WEXT_CORE is not enabled.  I haven't found the culprit, but I suspect "select".

but what in WIRELESS_EXT would also cause WEXT_CORE to be enabled?

~Randy
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