2013-02-06 15:37:37

by Xose Vazquez Perez

Subject: stable compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1 is broken

hi,

with compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1 I get:

make -C /lib/modules/3.7.5-101.fc17.x86_64/build M=/home/xose/tmp/compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.7.5-101.fc17.x86_64'
CC [M] /home/xose/tmp/compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1/net/wireless/core.o
/home/xose/tmp/compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1/net/wireless/core.c: In function ?cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call?:
/home/xose/tmp/compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1/net/wireless/core.c:895:3: error: implicit declaration of function ?netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

2013-02-07 16:07:02

by Hauke Mehrtens

Subject: Re: stable compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1 is broken

On 02/06/2013 04:37 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> hi,
>
> with compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1 I get:
>
> make -C /lib/modules/3.7.5-101.fc17.x86_64/build M=/home/xose/tmp/compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1 modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.7.5-101.fc17.x86_64'
> CC [M] /home/xose/tmp/compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1/net/wireless/core.o
> /home/xose/tmp/compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1/net/wireless/core.c: In function ?cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call?:
> /home/xose/tmp/compat-drivers-3.8-rc5-1/net/wireless/core.c:895:3: error: implicit declaration of function ?netdev_set_default_ethtool_ops? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

This bug is already fixed in the version for linux-next, I will do a new
release for 3.8 soon. You can apply this patch [0] manually to fix this
problem.

Hauke
[0]:
https://github.com/hauke/compat/commit/726d9b2ca3f75cba9f1d03e519c2b2e8bf6523a7