On 23/12/12 18:36, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
Hi guys! I have a question regarding RFE 306 :
(ID=0000306 http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=306)
Hi Adrian,
How did you compile the driver? I try to compile the driver on Fedora 17
x86_64 and i have some errors :
See comment 0002519 in the above bug for details.
It builds fine on RHEL6. RHEL6 is a supported build target.
make -C /lib/modules/3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64/build
SUBDIRS=/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64'
CC [M] /root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.o
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c: In function ‘alx_request_msix_irq’:
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c:1827:3: error: implicit declaration
of function ‘request_irq’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c:1836:3: error: implicit declaration
of function ‘irq_set_affinity_hint’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c:1848:3: error: implicit declaration
of function ‘free_irq’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c: In function ‘alx_request_irq’:
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c:1885:56: error: ‘IRQF_SHARED’
undeclared (first use in this function)
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c:1885:56: note: each undeclared
identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c: In function ‘alx_tx_map’:
/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c:3874:6: error: incompatible type
for argument 2 of ‘dma_map_page’
In file included from
/usr/src/kernels/3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64/arch/x86/include/asm/dma-mapping.h:44:0,
from include/linux/dma-mapping.h:76,
from include/linux/skbuff.h:33,
from include/linux/tcp.h:225,
from /root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.c:19:
include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h:71:66: note: expected ‘struct
page *’ but argument is of type ‘struct <anonymous>’
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src/alx_main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/ath_drv/alx_drv/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64'
make: *** [default] Error 2
Thank you for any tips!
Adrian
You should contact the backports mailing list where development of the
compat-wireless source takes place:
http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#backports
I'm not sure if Fedora is supported as a build target nor how different
the Fedora kernel is from a vanilla upstream kernel. You might need to
patch the code to support Fedora as a build target but it shouldn't be
too difficult getting just one driver to build against a modern kernel.
But I don't run Fedora so I'm not the person to help you fix it.
Hope that helps,
Phil
PS - a little history surrounding the alx driver - the alx driver first
appeared in the 3.5 branch of the compat-wireless crap patch set and was
also present in the 3.6 branch. As the authors failed to submit the
driver upstream to the Linux kernel, the compat-wireless maintainers
pulled (or planned to pull) the driver from the 3.7 release in an effort
to encourage the authors to submit it to the Linux kernel staging area
for new drivers and for development to take place there. Thus, I'm not
actually sure if the driver is even still present in the latest
compat-wireless snapshots at which point it's legacy and no one from
compat-wireless will want to assist you. These discussions took place on
the backports ML around 8/9 October 2012 - the driver we release
forRHEL6 is based on a nightly snapshot taken from 23rd Sept 2012. Just
thought I'd mention that before you wade into the backports list asking
for help - suggest you pull the latest tarballs and see if the driver is
actually still present, or not.
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