Re: [PATCH] wireless: make WEXT_SPY and WEXT_PRIV select WEXT_CORE

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Wed Oct 07 2009 - 18:36:29 EST


On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:55 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> > Should prevent this build error reported by Randy...
> >
> > net/wireless/wext-priv.c:206: error: implicit declaration of function 'call_commit_handler'
> > make[3]: *** [net/wireless/wext-priv.o] Error 1
> >
> > Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sorry, it did not work for me.

> linux-next-20091007/net/wireless/wext-priv.c:206: error: implicit declaration of function 'call_commit_handler'
> make[3]: *** [net/wireless/wext-priv.o] Error 1
>
> Drivers like hostap and orinoco (hermes) select WEXT_PRIV regardless
> of the setting of WEXT_CORE. oh, and staging/ drivers do that also.

But they also select WIRELESS_EXT, which should cause WEXT_CORE to be
turned on. Is it possible that is failing?

johannes

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