Comment 24 for bug 1159232

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Maxence Dolle (yaitanes) wrote : Re: Running iwconfig crashes (freezes) MacBookAir3,1 requiring hard reboot

I have the same problem with this kernel (3.8). So I just tested with the 3.9 kernel but it can't be built :

DKMS make.log for bcmwl-6.20.155.1+bdcom for kernel 3.9.0-030900rc6-generic (x86_64)
vendredi 10 mai 2013, 11:16:03 (UTC+0200)
make: entrant dans le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-3.9.0-030900rc6-generic »
CFG80211 API is prefered for this kernel version
Using CFG80211 API
  LD /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/built-in.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.o
  CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.o
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c:1578:2: attention : initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c:1578:2: attention : (near initialization for ‘wl_cfg80211_ops.set_tx_power’) [enabled by default]
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c:1579:2: attention : initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c:1579:2: attention : (near initialization for ‘wl_cfg80211_ops.get_tx_power’) [enabled by default]
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c: In function ‘wl_update_bss_info’:
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c:2025:3: attention : passing argument 1 of ‘cfg80211_put_bss’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c:33:0:
include/net/cfg80211.h:3302:6: note: expected ‘struct wiphy *’ but argument is of type ‘struct cfg80211_bss *’
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c:2025:3: erreur: too few arguments to function ‘cfg80211_put_bss’
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.c:33:0:
include/net/cfg80211.h:3302:6: note: declared here
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211.o] Erreur 1
make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.20.155.1+bdcom/build] Erreur 2
make: quittant le répertoire « /usr/src/linux-headers-3.9.0-030900rc6-generic »

Shall I report another bug for this? I tested with the 3.9, 3.9rc9, 3.8rc6 kernels but it's exactly the same.