error structure has no member named 'wireless_data'

Dan Williams dcbw
Thu Sep 21 13:35:14 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 16:21 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 14:57 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 14:04 -0400, Romeo Theriault wrote:
> [skip] 
> > > /root/hostap-driver-0.4.9/driver/modules/hostap.c: In function
> > > `hostap_setup_dev':
> > > /root/hostap-driver-0.4.9/driver/modules/hostap.c:942: error:
> > > structure has no member named `wireless_data'
> 
> > Wireless bits did get updated for RHEL4 U4, specifically the ieee80211
> > layer and the ipw2200 and ipw2100 drivers.  Wireless Extensions also got
> > updated to WE-18 (used to be at WE-16 I think).  Not sure if this error
> > is a result of that.
> 
> I'm quite sure it is.  Here's the code:
> 
> #if WIRELESS_EXT > 16
>         if (iface) {
>                 /* Currently, we point to the proper spy_data only on
>                  * the main_dev. This could be fixed. Jean II */
>                 iface->wireless_data.spy_data = &iface->spy_data;
>                 dev->wireless_data = &iface->wireless_data;
>         }
> #else /* WIRELESS_EXT > 16 */
>         if (main_dev || (iface && iface->type == HOSTAP_INTERFACE_MAIN))
>                 dev->get_wireless_stats =  hostap_get_wireless_stats;
> #endif /* WIRELESS_EXT > 16 */
> 
> It looks like the value of WIRELESS_EXT was increased, but the netdev
> structure remained unchanged.  The same thing in hostap_ioctl.c.

John, do you need to an additional patch for this?  Ready for another
exception? :)

dan






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