[Prism54-devel] Prism54 AP WPA using Hostap and WDS

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:43:46PM +0100, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:56:42AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > 
> > > For dev_alloc, I have no old kernel tree at hand to look it up.
> > 
> > I have looked into this and dev_alloc has been deprecated from 2.5 since
> > last year. dev_alloc_name is, however, still availalable so that is what
> > we'll use.
> 
> Patch included. It now compiles, but with warnings.
> 
> 
> --- isl_wds.c.orig	2004-11-08 17:27:04.000000000 +0100
> +++ isl_wds.c	2004-11-08 17:37:17.000000000 +0100
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
>   *  DESCRIPTION: Add a WDSlink device to the system.
>   * 		  On adding a WDSLINK to the MVC the following should be done:
>   * 		  - Add a new device to the WDSlink devices list.
> - * 		  - Create a device for this WDSlink (dev_alloc wds%d)
> + * 		  - Create a device for this WDSlink (dev_alloc_name wds%d)
>   * 		  - Register the just created dummy device (register_netdevice)
>   *               - Bring the just created device up and running by calling dev_open.
>   * 		  - Somehow the brigde needs to be told to accept the new interface.
> @@ -119,9 +119,9 @@
>  			 * So we can actualy create a new device for this link
>  			 */
>  			sprintf(brifname, "%s_%d", dev->name, i);
> -			if (!(wdsp->wds_dev[i] = dev_alloc(brifname, &err))) {
> +			if (!(err = dev_alloc_name(wdsp->wds_dev[i], brifname))) {
>  				DEBUG(DBG_WDS | DBG_ERROR,
> -				      "add_wds_link: dev_alloc() for WDS failed!\n");
> +				      "add_wds_link: dev_alloc_name() for WDS failed!\n");
>  				return err;
>  			}
>  			/* Get a pointer to this WDS device */

Great, thanks committed.

	Luis

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