CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH causes kernel build to hang on ia64

[Doug Chapman]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 12:19 -0400, Doug Chapman wrote:
> This is an odd one which I will continue to try to debug.
> 
> A recent change added CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH to the fedora kernel.  Oddly
> this causes gcc to hang when building net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c.  I
> originally suspected a gcc-4.3 bug but I then reproduced this on RHEL5
> with gcc-4.1.2.
> 
> This code is not yet in Linus's tree.  Could someone point me to the git
> tree where it lives?  I am thinking a git-bisect may help me find the
> specific change that causes this.
> 
> In the meantime it would be greatly helpful if we could add the
> following to config-ia64 and config-ia64-generic:
> 
> 
> # CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH is not set
> 
> This along with the change to not apply the utrace patch (see my earlier
> mail) once again allows ia64 to build.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> - Doug
> 

Just spoke with linville on irc.  He had another report of this over the
weekend and has a fix which he is pushing into Fedora now.

Much appreciated John.

- Doug