On 04/08/09 15:00, Matthias Becker wrote: > Hi, > > is the linux-dvb ML still "alive"? > maybe http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media is read more frequently That one has way too much non DVB related traffic for me. Klaus > 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
