On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:36:58PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote:
> I'm not totally clear on the relationship between the mercurial repository
> and the kernel, so maybe this just doesn't make sense at all.
>
> videodev2.h uses KERNEL_VERSION(), but doesn't include linux/version.h where
> that macro is defined. All the dvb-v4l code happens to include
> linux/version.h before it includes videodev2.h, so this doesn't cause a
> problem there. Other kernel code, such as the matroxfb driver, does include
> videodev2.h without linux/version.h, and so won't compile without this change.
>
> It seems like normally header files are responsible for including other
> headers they need for types and macros, and so the change should be to
> videodev2.h and not to matroxfb and whereever else needed.
Hi,
I have a question along these lines. I suspect someone will comment to the effect that this patch may not be needed,
irrespective can someone please explain the process of converting v4l/dvb CVS (multi-kernel flavours) to kernel patchable
(single kernel version/flavour) ?
Regards,
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