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Help J I am trying to build up to date linux dvb drivers
against the 2.6.9 kernel. This is in order to get a new (conexant) Nova-T card
working. I have been going round in circles trying to get the video4linux and
dvb-kernel sources to match up. The last try I made was as follows. Get a clean 2.6.9 source from kernel.org. Apply the video4linux kernel a patches from http://dl.bytesex.org/patches/2.6.9-rc4-1/All-2.6.9-rc4.diff.gz.
As there aren’t any patches for the for the 2.6.9 release yet I apply
these rc4 patches using –p1. This appears to work with no errors. If I now go to dvb-kernel cvs checkout directory and
diff all the .c and .h files under the linux subdirectory I get a number of
differences between these files and the ones in the kernel tree. This I would
expect if the dvb-kernel files from CVS are more recent. However, the very first file that fails is as
follows. 365c365 <
return videobuf_poll_stream(file, &fh->vbi_q, wait); --- >
return videobuf_poll_stream(file, file->private_data, &fh->vbi_q,
wait); ./drivers/media/common/saa7146_hlp.c This worries me as it shows that this file is not up
to date with the kernel tree. The whole diff file is about 34k, so there are a
lot of diffs! Which probably explains why if I go ahead and run makelinks
in the dvb-kernel directory I can no longer build a kernel. Sow how do I decide which versions of the files to
use, and which way to merge the differences? I gather that this might have some bearing on the
refactoring discussions that have been going on! Help!!! Roger |