linux-kernel - linux-next: merge of the wireless-next tree into the net-next tree

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Date:	Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:59:47 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: linux-next: merge of the wireless-next tree into the net-next tree

Hi all,

I noticed that the wireless-next tree has been merged into the net-next
tree today.  Has anything been done about the build failure I reported in
the wireless-next a while ago:

On 12/22/2011 16:58 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allyesconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c:27:1: error: expected ')' before 'KBUILD_MODNAME'
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c:27:1: error: 'KBUILD_MODNAME' undeclared here (not in a function)
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/cfg80211.c:27:1: error: expected ',' or ';' before string constant
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:32:1: error: expected ')' before 'KBUILD_MODNAME'
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:32:1: error: 'KBUILD_MODNAME' undeclared here (not in a function)
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:32:1: error: expected ',' or ';' before string constant
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:33:1: error: expected ')' before 'KBUILD_MODNAME'
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:33:1: error: invalid initializer
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:33:1: error: expected ',' or ';' before string constant
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:34:1: error: expected ')' before 'KBUILD_MODNAME'
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:34:1: error: invalid initializer
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c:34:1: error: expected ',' or ';' before string constant
> 
> I can't figure out what goes wrong here.  On the compile command line,
> KBUILD_MODNAME is not defined, but KBUILD_BASE_NAME is.
> 
> However, reverting commit fde57764ef87 ("ath6kl: enable USB support")
> made the problem go away.  That commit caused the above two files to be
> built into two separate modules.


There was some discussion, but I did not notice any fix (I may have
missed it).  I have been reverting that above commit ...
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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