linux-kernel - Re: What's up with wireless drivers?

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Message-ID: <4BF7DDAA.1080307@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 22 May 2010 06:35:38 -0700
From:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	piotr@...owicz.com
CC:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's up with wireless drivers?

On 05/22/2010 06:13 AM, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> On 22.05.2010 14:43, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>> On 22.05.2010 10:40, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>>> On 22.05.2010 00:20, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>>>> On 22.05.2010 00:12, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 21 May 2010 23:31:28 +0200 Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 21.05.2010 23:21, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>>>>>>> On 21.05.2010 23:07, John W. Linville wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:53:56PM +0200, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I try to build kernel from git source. Now n-th build try is
>>>>>>>>> performing, each time it failed on wireless drivers - Atheros,
>>>>>>>>> Marvel etc. Did I miss something?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Piotr Hosowicz
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Perhaps you should post your actual output from the build failure?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I dont have it right now, I disabled wireless at all and started
>>>>>>> build.
>>>>>>> The output to the console was make-kpkg ordinary message - saying
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> sub build finished with error code 2 AFAIR, it stopped each time on
>>>>>>> wireless drivers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Zonk! It seems that the problem is not only with wireless, now it
>>>>>> broke
>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (snip)
>>>>>> CC [M] drivers/net/usb/int51x1.o
>>>>>> CC [M] drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.o
>>>>>> CC [M] drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.o
>>>>>> CC [M] drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_main.o
>>>>>> CC [M] drivers/net/wan/wanxl.o
>>>>>> CC [M] drivers/net/usb/ipheth.o
>>>>>> LD [M] drivers/net/wan/cyclomx.o
>>>>>> CC [M] drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.o
>>>>>> CC [M] drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_proto.o
>>>>>> LD [M] drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc.o
>>>>>> make[1]: Opuszczenie katalogu
>>>>>> `/usr/src/linus/linux-2.6-20100521-2044'
>>>>>> make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Błąd 2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Opuszczenie katalogu `/usr/src/linus/linux-2.6-20100521-2044' is
>>>>>> "leaving directory", Błąd is error.
>>>>>
>>>>> That still doesn't show the actual error/problem message...
>>>>
>>>> Because there was no other messages, maybe Debian make-kpkg mutes them
>>>> some way. I can try tommorrow the classic linux way and test it. I
>>>> attach botching config.
>>>
>>> I git-pulled and have run build with make-kpkg --verbose, again failed.
>>> This is the tail of the output:
>>>
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>> I tried git8 from kernel.org and the make-kpkg build fails on iwlwifi.
>> I'll give up for today I think.
>
> I gave it one more try and it failed again like in my first post yesterday:
>
> CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_rtl8225.o
> CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_usb.o
> CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.o
> CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_rfkill.o
> LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180.o
> LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187.o
> LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.o
> LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.o
> LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_htc.o
> LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.o
> LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw.o
> make[1]: Opuszczenie katalogu `/usr/src/linux-2.6.34-git8'
> make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Błąd 2
>
> zd1211rw is in wireless Zydas device driver, behaves like yesterday
>
> I am giving up for a time being or may be someone will help me here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Piotr Hosowicz
>


not sure whats happening and/or how debian is
building the kernel, but can you try
make V=1  so there is more of a verbose message
on the screen of whats breaking.

Justin P. Mattock
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