driver_nl80211 does not compile

[Nick]

Indeed. Thanks! Send a patch:
http://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2023-March/040692.html

On 3/15/23 09:59, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> wt., 14 mar 2023 o 22:37 Nick <vincent at systemli.org> napisał(a):
>> I wanted to update the OpenWrt hostapd version to the newest git
>> version. I encountered following error:
>>
>>>    ../src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c: In function 'get_sta_handler':
>>>    ../src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c:7474:63: error: 'NLA_S8' undeclared
>>> (first use in this function); did you mean 'NLA_U8'?
>>>     7474 |                 [NL80211_STA_INFO_ACK_SIGNAL_AVG] = { .type
>>> = NLA_S8 },
>>> | ^~~~~~
>>> | NLA_U8
>>>    ../src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c:7474:63: note: each undeclared
>>> identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
>>>    ../src/drivers/driver_nl80211.c:7580:25: warning: implicit
>>> declaration of function 'nla_get_s8'; did you mean 'nla_get_u8'?
>>> [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>>>     7580 | nla_get_s8(stats[NL80211_STA_INFO_ACK_SIGNAL_AVG]);
>>>          |                         ^~~~~~~~~~
>>>          |                         nla_get_u8
>> As a workaround I removed the corresponding lines, however, this is not
>> an acceptable solution:
>> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/blob/656eac04092bddf226f49dc81b3b4b9582e609d2/package/network/services/hostapd/patches/180-nl80211-fix-compiling.patch
>> Is there a proper fix available?
>>
> Seems like libnl-tiny problem?
>
> janusz at e850:~/pandora/ax6000/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/libnl-tiny-2022-11-01-db3b2cdb$
> rgrep nla_get_s8
> janusz at e850:~/pandora/ax6000/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/libnl-tiny-2022-11-01-db3b2cdb$
> find /usr/ -name attr.h
> /usr/include/libnl3/netlink/attr.h
> janusz at e850:~/pandora/ax6000/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/libnl-tiny-2022-11-01-db3b2cdb$
> grep nla_get_s8 /usr/include/libnl3/netlink/attr.h
> extern int8_t           nla_get_s8(const struct nlattr *);
> janusz at e850:~/pandora/ax6000/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a53_musl/libnl-tiny-2022-11-01-db3b2cdb$
>
> BR
> Janusz
>
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