linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for June 3 (iwlwifi)

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Message-ID: <1275587157.2091.31847.camel@rchatre-DESK>
Date:	Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:45:57 -0700
From:	reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Guy, Wey-Yi W" <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for June 3 (iwlwifi)

Hi John,

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 10:21 -0700, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:55:01AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 13:47:53 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Changes since 20100602:
> > 
> > 
> > when CONFIG_IWLAGN=n:
> > 
> > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:254: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
> > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:303: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
> > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:304: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
> > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:305: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
> > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c:306: error: 'struct iwl_priv' has no member named '_agn'
> > 
> > and many more.
> > 
> > Haven't we seen this movie before?
> 
> Ugh...caused be this:
> 
> commit a2064b7a4a22d118087898e4308670da7ac07911
> Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>
> Date:   Fri Apr 30 14:21:48 2010 -0700
> 
>     iwlwifi: move _agn statistics related structure
>     
>     agn and 3945 has different statistics_notif data structure; since 3945
>     has it statistics_notif data structure inside the _3945 portion of
>     iwl_priv, it make sense to move the agn statistics_notif into _agn portion.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
> 
> Since iwl-rx.o is part of iwlcore.ko, this change seems wrong.

Indeed. Sorry about this.

> Reinette, any reason why I shouldn't just revert it?

No - please do revert it. I am getting an unfamiliar error when I tried
to revert it from linux-2.6 as well as wireless-testing, but perhaps it
is something your are familiar with. Please let me know if you need a
patch that will take care of the revert.

Reinette


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