On 12/26/17 10:26, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Having just done a system upgrade, the upgrade has upgraded the kernel from
> 4.13.16-300 to 4.14.7-300, consequently I no longer have wifi access.
>
> Manually compiling the driver for 4.14.7-300 produces the following warnings:
>
> WARNING: "__vfs_read" [/usr/src/rtl8814au-5.1.5/8814au.ko] undefined!
> WARNING: "vfs_read" [/usr/src/rtl8814au-5.1.5/8814au.ko] undefined!
>
> A subsequent insmod 8814au or modprobe 8814au does not load the driver 
> because of
> an undefined symbol, but does not specify what the symbol is. My assumption 
> it is
> because of the above warnings.
>
> Having done a search through the headers for kernel 4.14.7-300 I have found 
> that
> include file fs.h has the definitions for __vfs_read and vfs_read.
>
> In the driver include file osdep_service_linux.h I found the following 
> statements:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_EFUSE_CONFIG_FILE
>         #include <linux/fs.h>
> #endif
>
> In an attempt to fix the warnings I did and explicit #include <linux/fs.h>, 
> and
> recompiled the driver source but doing this did not resolve the warnings.
>
> Does anyone know what I need to do to resolve the warnings and hence make the
> driver kernel loadable?


From where did you obtain the driver?

I don't have the HW to test on, but https://github.com/zebulon2/rtl8814au seems 
to
compile just fine.  It also has a note from 13 days ago about "Fix a compilation
error on kernel v4.14 and later"


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