Hi Trent, > > does this mean v4l-dvb is no longer compatibel with the 2.6.20-kernel ? > > For the moment, yes. > The v4l-dvb source tracks the latest kernel. To make the C code work with > older kernels too, we have all kinds of #if/#endif blocks and magic stuff in > file called compat.h that takes care of the differences. > > In this case, the problem is that the Kconfig files are not backward > compatible. All the things we do to C code won't work for the Kconfig > language. Hmm... Are you meaning handling language changes on Kconfig? Yes, current procedures don't work fine. > I'm not sure exactly how to handle this. Maybe we could run the Kconfig files > through cpp before using them, so we could use #if/#endif style macros to make > them work on old kernels? The same gentree.pl script that cleans the C code > would work on the Kconfig files too. This would work, although it seems a hack. As you mentioned, it would make life harder also for make kernellinks. Maybe a better solution would be writing a diff file to be applied at v4l/kconfig if kernel version <2.6.20. > I'm not sure if the Kconfig files have > cpp clean syntax, and this could complicate the make kernellinks ability. > Note that having non-backward compatible kconfig files also complicates > kernellinks. Yes. -- Cheers, Mauro _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
