[vdr] Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Problems switching to dvb-kernel

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 05 September 2004 12:24, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> [snip]
> > I guess it all comes down to this: the kernel 2.6 based linux-dvb
> > driver version in CVS should be made so that it still compiles with
> > the latest "official" kernel versions used by the major distributions.
> > Typically Linux distributions don't use the latest greatest kernel
> > versions. If the DVB driver wants to make use of some kernel features
> > that are not available yet in the kernel versions used by the major
> > distributions, it should provide backwards compatibilty mechanisms.
> > Simply locking out "older" kernel versions is not very wise...
> 
> I've attached a tarball with some changes that should fix this msleep issue on
> kernel version < 2.6.7. It will only fix build-2.6, but I belive that is
> acceptable, hmm?

Sure - I guess build-2.4 will be left behind pretty soon, anyway (if it
hasn't been, already...).

> Should there be any other compatability problems exept for this msleep thingy,
> feel free to yell :)
> 
> I've not bothered to test it beyond compilation, because I don't want to
> downgrade the kernel in my server box.

Thanks. I'll take a look at this next weekend, when I hopefully will
have a chance to try kernel 2.6 and dvb-kernel again.

Klaus

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