Re: [Madwifi-devel] .c / .h problem

[Frank S. <tw...@ho...>]

Hi Pavel,


>On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 19:22 +0200, Frank Schneider wrote:
> > I got a problem while adding my own function (e.g. my_fun()) in if_ath.c
> > file and call from other .c file of different directory (eg. net80211).
> > There is no error in make clean;make;make install
> >
> > But when I am gonna up the device its showing FATAL error, cannot insert
> > ath_pci module ...
>
>In the future, please don't rephrase error messages and give versions of
>the involved software (in this case - madwifi and Linux kernel).

I didnt want to mean its an "error" -it was showing error bcoz of my 
stupidity.
by the way, I am working madwifi-0.9.1 linux kernel 2.6.12

> > I did it successfully in just reverse way i.e. I can call a function 
>from
> > if_ath.c file that is implemented/written in ieee802_output.c (net80211
> > directory) by using EXPORT_SYMBOL and adding in appropriate .h file.
>
>It happens because the "ath_pci" module depends on the "wlan" module.
>By making a function in wlan that calls a function in ath_pci, you
>create a circular dependency.  Neither module can be loaded first.


So if I create a function in if_ath.c file and want to call from a .c file
of "net80211" directory-

Iis there any way to do it by avoiding this "circular dependency"  ??


regards,
Frank



>
>The sources in the "net" directory is a port of the FreeBSD IEEE 802.11
>stack.  They shouldn't have Atheros specific code.
>
>--
>Regards,
>Pavel Roskin
>
>

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