On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Artem Makhutov wrote: > I would like to compile current dvb-drivers from hg for kernel 2.6.11.12. > Has somebody experience with this? I'm running 2.6.14 on my production machine (which may be a snapshot during the merge window before a 15-rc1 tag was added -- I still haven't wrapped my brane around all the details of version numbers, git, makefiles, and all -- in any case, some .14 checks I have had to bump to .15 to get the source to compile). It can be done for .14; of course I get a panic when I use these modules, or when I try to add later hardware code to the working .14 source, but that's likely because I've made more hacks elsewhere that I no longer remember clearly, and I haven't motivated myself to make things work since then. Anyway, some time back, there was a change made which removed support for selected earlier kernels, and you can do a `hg diff' on your repository to see what those changes were -- either checking out the revision before that change and starting with that, or getting all the diffs and re-adding them to the latest code and seeing how far you can get. This changeset where the support was removed is 8240. You can use `hg log' and `hg diff' on selected files to see if earlier changesets affect support for earlier kernels. For example, changeset 963 removed 2.4 support. > The first problem I am running into is that 2.6.11 has no linux/mutex.h. That's an easy one. If you would like, I can pack up the snapshot which I built (a few modules fail to build 'cuz they are too new and I don't have that hardware) and see how far you can get with it. Whether you need special magic to get further towards 2.6.11, I don't know -- nor can I promise anything about the diffs I've added. Like I say, they don't work for me, but they compile, so hey, job done, get it out the door, ship it thanks, barry bouwsma _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
