linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.27-git3: rtl8169 oops and wireless missing symbols

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Message-ID: <20081014014406.318db8e7@werewolf.home>
Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:44:06 +0200
From:	"J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@....com>
To:	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-git3: rtl8169 oops and wireless missing symbols

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:24:33 -0400, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:02:02AM +0200, J.A. Magallón wrote:
> 
> > werewolf:~# modprobe ath5k
> > WARNING: Error inserting cfg80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.27-jam03/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> > WARNING: Error inserting mac80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.27-jam03/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> > FATAL: Error inserting ath5k (/lib/modules/2.6.27-jam03/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> > werewolf:~# modprobe mac80211
> > WARNING: Error inserting cfg80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.27-jam03/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> > FATAL: Error inserting mac80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.27-jam03/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> > 
> > Dmesg is below.
> 
> cfg80211 isn't loading, so mac80211 can't find it's symbols, and
> ath5k can't find mac80211's symbols.
> 
> > cfg80211: Unknown parameter `ieee80211_regdom'
> 
> config WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY
> 	bool "Old wireless static regulatory definitions"
...
> 
> Is this not clear enough?
> 

NO.

I'm a complete literate in wireles internals. Not in other areas. And I
don't undestand a word about regulations and so on. The only thing
I see there is 'OLD WAY of doing things', so I disable it. I expect
two things:

- As it is an optional thing I can toggle, no driver depends on it.
- If I choose a driver that depends on it, it will get automagically
  selected.

So, please, if migration is not finished:

- Default it as Y, or add a depend on every driver that uses it
- Hide it under the famous 'crazy hacker-only things' boolean

It is enough to have to choose between mac80211 and ieee80211.

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