On 11/15/10, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <maurochehab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > I've added several patches for the new-build today, in order to make it > compile > against older kernels. I tested compilation here with both RHEL6 (2.6.32) > and > Fedora 14 (2.6.35) and compilation is working fine. Didn't test the drivers. > I'm not sure if the remote controller will properly work with my quick > backport. Thanks for those changes. The build completes now, with only three warnings. I do have to say CONFIG_DVB_FIREDTV=n, it appears still to be a problem on ubuntu. >>> First dumb question - (I'll try to minimise these) >>> ... > The patches generally reverse-apply some upstream change. Andy's approach > could be done via compat.h. I opted to just backport the upstream patch. > > Anyway, there were other problems on it, due to other API changes, and to > the move of the rc-core from .../IR to .../rc directory. > > I opted to simplify the backports, avoiding to duplicate the same patch on > several different directories. > I see that now, after some quality time in the backports directory. It does look simpler. I think my original problem was that somehow the patch in the 2.6.32_series to remove references to noop_llseek() was not applying cleanly. No idea why, I flushed the logs I kept. Thanks all, I'll give the new build a test run as soon as I get a chance. Cheers Vince -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
