rfkill is enabled in defconfig, but breaks the build.

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Mon Jun 14 12:30:03 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> Because linux/rfkill.h isn't installed:
>
> miscutils/rfkill.c:10:26: error: linux/rfkill.h: No such file or directory
> miscutils/rfkill.c: In function ‘rfkill_main’:
> miscutils/rfkill.c:21: error: storage size of ‘event’ isn’t known
> miscutils/rfkill.c:46: error: ‘RFKILL_TYPE_ALL’ undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> miscutils/rfkill.c:46: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> miscutils/rfkill.c:46: error: for each function it appears in.)
> miscutils/rfkill.c:65: error: ‘RFKILL_EVENT_SIZE_V1’ undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> miscutils/rfkill.c:105: error: ‘RFKILL_OP_CHANGE_ALL’ undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> miscutils/rfkill.c:110: error: ‘RFKILL_OP_CHANGE’ undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> miscutils/rfkill.c:21: warning: unused variable ‘event’
> make[1]: *** [miscutils/rfkill.o] Error 1
>
> It isn't there on my clunky old Ubuntu 9.04 laptop, and it also isn't there on
> the Gentoo system I installed last week.  In either case, I'm not even sure
> what package I'd install to get that header.  (It went into the upstream
> kernel in 2007, but it doesn't seem to be installed by default as part of the
> linux kernel development headers.)
>
> It probably shouldn't be enabled by defconfig if you have to install an obscure
> package to build it.   Also, could the menuconfig help get annotated with some
> hint as to how to get the header I need to build it?

As usual in such cases, newer Linux kernel headers are needed.

I switched its default to n.
-- 
vda


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