Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: bcmwl (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Broadcom bcmwl driver failed to compile when upgrade to kernel
4.15.0-29
Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
1) lsb-release -a
Distributor ID: neon
Description: KDE neon User Edition 5.13
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
2) apt-cache policy bcmwl-kernel-source
bcmwl-kernel-source:
Installed: 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu1~1.2
Candidate: 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu1~1.2
...
3) What you expected to happen
The new kernel installs and dkms modules compile normally
4) What happened instead
This error shows up when upgrade to kernel 4.15.0-29:
Processing triggers for linux-image-4.15.0-29-generic (4.15.0-29.31~16.04.1)
...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.15.0-29-generic
(x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/make.log for more
information.
It seems there are some compilation errors in make.log:
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.o
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c: In
function ‘osl_os_get_image_block’:
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:1083:26:
warning: passing argument 2 of ‘kernel_read’ makes pointer from integer without
a cast [-Wint-conversion]
rdlen = kernel_read(fp, fp->f_pos, buf, len);
^
In file included from ./include/linux/huge_mm.h:7:0,
from ./include/linux/mm.h:463,
from
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/include/linuxver.h:65,
from
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:25:
./include/linux/fs.h:2858:16: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type
‘loff_t {aka long long int}’
extern ssize_t kernel_read(struct file *, void *, size_t, loff_t *);
^
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:1083:37:
warning: passing argument 3 of ‘kernel_read’ makes integer from pointer without
a cast [-Wint-conversion]
rdlen = kernel_read(fp, fp->f_pos, buf, len);
^
In file included from ./include/linux/huge_mm.h:7:0,
from ./include/linux/mm.h:463,
from
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/include/linuxver.h:65,
from
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:25:
./include/linux/fs.h:2858:16: note: expected ‘size_t {aka long unsigned int}’
but argument is of type ‘char *’
extern ssize_t kernel_read(struct file *, void *, size_t, loff_t *);
^
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:1083:42:
warning: passing argument 4 of ‘kernel_read’ makes pointer from integer without
a cast [-Wint-conversion]
rdlen = kernel_read(fp, fp->f_pos, buf, len);
^
In file included from ./include/linux/huge_mm.h:7:0,
from ./include/linux/mm.h:463,
from
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/include/linuxver.h:65,
from
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/shared/linux_osl.c:25:
./include/linux/fs.h:2858:16: note: expected ‘loff_t * {aka long long int *}’
but argument is of type ‘int’
extern ssize_t kernel_read(struct file *, void *, size_t, loff_t *);
^
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In
function ‘wl_init_timer’:
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:2359:2:
error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’
[-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
init_timer(&t->timer);
^
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:2360:10:
error: ‘struct timer_list’ has no member named ‘data’
t->timer.data = (ulong) t;
^
/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:2361:20:
error: assignment from incompatible pointer type
[-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
t->timer.function = wl_timer;
^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
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