Bugzilla Bug 138891

All versions of linux-wlan-ng(-modules) don't compile with a current 2.6.17
kernel.

  Building modules, stage 2. 
  MODPOST 
/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src/p80211/Modules.symvers:
No such file or directory 
/bin/sh: line 1: 13726 Aborted                 scripts/mod/modpost -i
/usr/src/linux-2.6.17/Module.symvers -I
/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src/p80211/..
/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src/p80211/Modules.symvers
-o
/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src/p80211/..
/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src/p80211/Modules.symvers
vmlinux
/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src/p80211/p80211.o 
make[4]: *** [__modpost] Error 134 
make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2 
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.17' 
make[2]: *** [default] Error 2 
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src/p80211' 
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src' 
make: *** [all] Error 2


I found a patch on the linux-wlan mailing lists

http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2006-May/003584.html
or
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/attachments/20060508/e25e690b/make-2.6.17.bin

I've tested it and it works...
Perhaps someone could add it.

Removing block on 137175 as linux-wlan-ng-modules is not in the stable tree.
Nevertheless please fix this when you can (I have tested the updated patch
found later on in that thread).

Created an attachment (id=93279) [edit]
The new ebuild

Created an attachment (id=93280) [edit]
And here the patch mentioned in the previous post.

Patch added. Sorry about this taking so long. The patch could only be applied
when using 2.6.17 because it did not work with 2.6.16. 

Today I compiled the modules with kernel 2.6.18 which resulted in an similar
error with 0.2.3-r1.

I did the following change in the 2.6.17.patch file

from:
+       cp Modules.symvers ../prism2/driver
to:
+       cp Module.symvers ../prism2/driver

It did compile after that.

I leave the bug resolved cause I don't know if it could be a fault on my side.


Another thing I want to mention - it has nothing to do with this bug and it is
no error but there are hundreds of warnings now - I guess thats because of
gcc-4.1.1?

e.g.
/var/tmp/portage/linux-wlan-ng-modules-0.2.3-r1/work/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.3/src/include/wlan/p80211metastruct.h:162:
warning: 'packed' attribute ignored for field of type 'p80211item_uint32_t'