I have tried with the SuSE kernel v. 2.4.21 and I get similar errors,
like these (maybe a problem of compatibility between SuSE and standard
kernel?):
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=scx200_i2c -c -o scx200_i2c.o scx200_i2c.c
scx200_i2c.c:107: unknown field `inc_use' specified in initializer
scx200_i2c.c:107: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
scx200_i2c.c:108: unknown field `dec_use' specified in initializer
scx200_i2c.c:108: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
scx200_i2c.c:109: duplicate initializer
scx200_i2c.c:109: (near initialization for `scx200_i2c_ops.client_register')
scx200_i2c.c:110: duplicate initializer
scx200_i2c.c:110: (near initialization for `scx200_i2c_ops.client_unregister')
make[2]: *** [scx200_i2c.o] Error 1
make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-4/drivers/i2c'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_i2c] Error 2
make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-4/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
Disabling the previous module:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DMODULE -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=i2c_ali1535 -c -o i2c-ali1535.o i2c-ali1535.c
i2c-ali1535.c:171: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
i2c-ali1535.c:172: warning: missing braces around initializer
i2c-ali1535.c:172: warning: (near initialization for `smbus_algorithm.name')
i2c-ali1535.c:172: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion
i2c-ali1535.c:173: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:174: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:174: initializer element is not computable at load time
i2c-ali1535.c:174: (near initialization for `smbus_algorithm.name[2]')
i2c-ali1535.c:175: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:176: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:177: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:178: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:178: initializer element is not computable at load time
i2c-ali1535.c:178: (near initialization for `smbus_algorithm.name[6]')
i2c-ali1535.c:182: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
i2c-ali1535.c:183: warning: missing braces around initializer
i2c-ali1535.c:183: warning: (near initialization for `ali1535_adapter.name')
i2c-ali1535.c:183: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion
i2c-ali1535.c:184: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:184: initializer element is not computable at load time
i2c-ali1535.c:184: (near initialization for `ali1535_adapter.name[1]')
i2c-ali1535.c:185: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:186: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:186: initializer element is not computable at load time
i2c-ali1535.c:186: (near initialization for `ali1535_adapter.name[3]')
i2c-ali1535.c:187: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:187: initializer element is not computable at load time
i2c-ali1535.c:187: (near initialization for `ali1535_adapter.name[4]')
i2c-ali1535.c:188: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
i2c-ali1535.c:189: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
make[2]: *** [i2c-ali1535.o] Error 1
make[2]: Saliendo directorio `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-4/drivers/i2c/busses'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_i2c/busses] Error 2
make[1]: Saliendo directorio `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-4/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
I also attach the .config file...
Thanks.
Jean Delvare escribi? (Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:06:15 +0200):
>> I have SuSE 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18. I am trying to use the i2c patch,
>> in order to use my webcam (module bttv) and lm_sensors. I have used
>> the mkpatch script which comes with the i2c package. When I try to
>> compile the kernel I get the following errors for various i2c modules:
>> (...)
JD> Could you send us your .config file? I could then try to reproduce the
JD> problem on my system.
JD> However, why are you using such an old kernel? It's 17 month and three
JD> version old! If you are to recompile your kernel, you should update to
JD> 2.4.21 before doing so, methinks.
>> Besides I am not sure if the file i2c-2.8.0-drivers-media-video.diff,
>> which I also used for patching, is appropriate for my kernel.
JD> If it applied cleanly (I mean not part was rejected) it should be OK.
JD> --
JD> Jean Delvare
JD> http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
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