Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the staging tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Jan 23 2014 - 23:04:50 EST


Hi Greg,

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:53:12 -0800 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 01:01:22PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > After merging the staging tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> > allmodconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/regd.c: In function '_rtl_reg_apply_beaconing_flags':
> > drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/regd.c:200:20: error: 'IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > ch->flags &= ~IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS;
>
> Wait, I can't duplicate this at all here, either on just my staging-next
> branch, or when merged together with Linus's tree.
>
> Can you send me your .config that you used to cause this to fail
> (allmodconfig works just fine here.)
>
> Could this all be due to some wireless patches that aren't merged with
> Linus yet but are in linux-next?

Yep, commit 8fe02e167efa ("cfg80211: consolidate passive-scan and no-ibss
flags") from the net-next tree.

> If this is going to be a pain, I can easily drop it all and just wait
> for 3.15-rc1, but it being a stand-alone driver, that works for hardware
> I have here (and rumor has it, Linus also has this box), I figured I
> would try to stay ahead of the curve and get it merged :)

That would require that I fix up the semantic merge conflicts on
Tuesday (I have a long weekend). Unless you wait just until Dave merges
his tree and then base on top of that (or do a back merge of Linus' tree).

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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