Re: stable backport of "wireless: Use linux/stddef.h instead of stddef.h"

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:04:00AM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:

Hi,

Please backport "wireless: Use linux/stddef.h instead of stddef.h" to kernel 4.14, 4.19 and 5.4. This is upstream commit id 1b9ae0c92925ac40489be526d67d0010d0724ce0 https://git.kernel.org/linus/1b9ae0c92925ac40489be526d67d0010d0724ce0

commit 1b9ae0c92925ac40489be526d67d0010d0724ce0 Author: Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de Date: Thu May 21 22:14:22 2020 +0200

wireless: Use linux/stddef.h instead of stddef.h

This patch fixes a build problem in broken build environments which was introduced with 6989310f5d43 ("wireless: Use offsetof instead of custom macro.") which was backported to the listed kernel versions.

When the include path is fully correct you should not hit this problem, but I got it because of some bug in by build system and also someone else reported a similar problem to me and requested this backport.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h