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rtl8812au package

rtl8821ce-dkms broken on the latest 5.19 kinetic:linux

Bug #1990539 reported by Andrea Righi
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rtl8812au (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

[Impact]

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1/build/os_dep/linux/ioctl_cfg80211.c:420:9: error: too few arguments to function ‘cfg80211_ch_switch_notify’

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1/build/os_dep/linux/ioctl_cfg80211.c:9601:20: error: initialization of ‘int (*)(struct wiphy *, struct net_device *, unsigned int)’ from incompatible pointer type ‘int (*)(struct wiphy *, struct net_device *)’ [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821ce/5.5.2.1/build/os_dep/linux/ioctl_cfg80211.c:9870:17: error: ‘struct wireless_dev’ has no member named ‘current_bss’

[Test case]

$ sudo apt install rtl8821ce-dkms

[Fix]

Update driver to support the new 5.19 kernel ABI (new struct wireless_dev, cfg80211_ch_switch_notify() and struct cfg80211_ops.

[Regression potential]

We may experience network issues on systems that are using rtl8821ce-dkms.

Tags: patch
Revision history for this message
Andrea Righi (arighi) wrote :

debdiff in attach seems to fix the build errors with the latest kinetic:linux 5.19 kernel

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)
tags: added: patch
Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)
Changed in rtl8812au (Ubuntu Kinetic):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Utkarsh Gupta (utkarsh) wrote :

Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.

Changed in rtl8812au (Ubuntu Kinetic):
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
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