Hi, is the linux-dvb ML still "alive"? maybe http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media is read more frequently Regards, Matthias 2009/4/8 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 04/08/09 01:21, Tobi wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Recent DVB driver releases (now in Kernel 2.6.29) cause trouble compiling >> VDR (see snippet A below). >> >> The common solution to this seems to be to add a "-D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES". >> >> It felt wrong somehow and I didn't liked this, so I tried another >> solution, which is to have any libc6 <sys/*> includes appear before the >> linux DVB header includes <linux/*>. Doing this only in dvbdevice.c seems >> to do the trick for VDR (see snippet B). I works for VDR 1.6.0 as well as >> VDR 1.7.4. >> >> I think the root of this problem is caused by the Kernel headers / DVB >> drivers changing from asm/types.h to linux/types.h: >> >> -#include <asm/types.h> >> +#include <linux/types.h> >> >> How should this problem ideally be fixed? Is my solution (snippet B) >> better than using -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES or should the kernel / DVB >> driver developers be blamed for this? > > My 2ct: > > - An application should not need to use -D__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES. > - Any header file that requires other header files to be included > should do so by itself. > - The sequence in which header files are included should not matter. > I normally list them alphabetically, to easily find a particular one. > > I currently solve the broken DVB driver header files by replacing them > with the ones from an earlier driver version, where they still worked. > > I had posted this problem on the linux-dvb ML a while ago, but apparently > nobody cared... > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
