Re: [Madwifi-users] Error building madwifi-ng

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Hi,
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 12:28 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
...
> 
> I mean the compiler complains about "printk" in seq_printf declaration in the
> file seq_file.h in the kernel sources.  So my question is whether the compiler
> is right to complain about it.  What is the seq_printf declaration in
> seq_file.h?  Do you have "printk" or "printf" in the format attribute?
> 

It's for printf

int seq_printf(struct seq_file *, const char *, ...)
        __attribute__ ((format (printf,2,3)));

> If it's "printk", then the kernel is incorrect.  Then make sure that the kernel
> is up to date and report the problem to Ubuntu.
> 
> If it's "printf", then there must be "#define printf printk" somewhere.  To
> locate that place, you can add "#define printf foo" before the seq_printf
> declaration, and then the compiler would report where "printf" was defined
> before.

It's in net80211/ieee80211_linux.h, line 311

Thanks for walking me through this.  What's the next step?

> >
> > Not knowing much I would think that a dist would ship with the compiler
> > the kernel was built with. In this case is 4.03 is installed.  Trying
> > not to clutter my hard-drive, I'd rather not install gcc3.*   I should
> > look in to what compiler was used with the kernel.
> 
> Just run "cat /proc/version"
> 

ahh, okay, it's 4.03 same as the compiler


Thanks


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