Re: Mercurial builds causing unknown symbols in cam drivers?

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On 8/14/07, Dave Richards <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 05:30 +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote:
> > On 8/13/07, Dave Richards <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I have a Hauppage WintvNova-T USB 2 stick that I use the recent
> > > Mercurial drop of v4l-dvb to fix the DiB0700 I2C read fails.
> > > The new drop of v4l-dvb and the new firmware works like a charm and a
> > > big thanks for all the work with that.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately this breaks my USB web cam (a Creative Logic Optia) that
> > > used the out of kernel Linux UVC driver.
> > > The result is dmesg showing unknown symbols when the cam is plugged in.
> > > Dmesg output follows at the bottom of this post.
> > >
> > > My understanding was that this is caused as the cam driver and dvb have
> > > effectively been compiled against a different kernel, dvb is being
> > > pulled from Mercurial and the cam driver was compiled against the stock
> > > source. I'm using Ubuntu Feisty 2.6.20-16-generic.
> > > I've run 'make kernel-links' from within the v4l-dvb source to update
> > > the kernel source and recompiled the UVC driver; Unfortunately this
> > > doesn't provide the fix I was hoping it would.
> > >
> > > I've looked back through some mailing list archives, this list and the
> > > UVC and video4linux archives. I can see there has been some debate about
> > > API changes that are planned and a move to video_ioctl2. From what I can
> > > see just quickly looking through the source pulled from Mercurial the
> > > parts of the API that the UVC driver still needs are still present so I
> > > don't believe that's the problem at the moment.
> > >
> > > I have asked on the UVC list and the suggestion was I post here.
> > >
> > > Any help greatfully recieved. Thanks for your time.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [21400.572000] usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> > > address 9
> > > [21400.996000] usb 5-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_devdata
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_devdata
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol
> > > video_unregister_device
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol
> > > video_device_alloc
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol
> > > video_register_device
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_register_device
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol
> > > video_device_release
> > > [21401.048000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_device_release
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol video_devdata
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_devdata
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol
> > > video_unregister_device
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol
> > > video_device_alloc
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_device_alloc
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol
> > > video_register_device
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_register_device
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: disagrees about version of symbol
> > > video_device_release
> > > [21401.052000] uvcvideo: Unknown symbol video_device_release
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > you have to run "make kernel-links", this will update your kernel
> > sourcetree with the latest v4l-dvb sources.
> > After this if you rebuild your camdrivers they will use the latest
> > sources and everything should work out fine. You cannot mix cam
> > drivers which are build with older v4l-dvb inkernelsources with the
> > latest v4l-dvb sources from linuxtv.org.
> >
> > Markus
>
>
>
> Thanks Markus. I have tried using 'make kernel-links' and I see the sym
> links that were created and the Doc directories it set up. My cam driver
> uvcvideo builds cleanly but unfortunately I still see the unknown
> symbols.
>
> I'm scratching my head and can't see what still could be tripping it up.
>

Try to remove the media tree within /lib/modules/`uname -r`
Afterwards reinstall the kernelmodules. Many others seem to have the
same problem with updating their kernel sources.

Markus

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