Re: V4L hg tree fails to compile against kernel 2.6.28

From: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@gmail.com>
To: Jan Hoogenraad <jan-conceptronic@hoogenraad.net>
Cc: linux-media <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
	VDR User <user.vdr@gmail.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: V4L hg tree fails to compile against kernel 2.6.28
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:21:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimwWj0sw0NKgaGBJmpKzjvwM1-U16+vToOg_Pyc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinA1r87W+4J=MRV5i6M6BD-c+KTWnYqyBd7WCQA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Douglas Schilling Landgraf
<dougsland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Jan,
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Jan Hoogenraad
> <jan-conceptronic@hoogenraad.net> wrote:
>> Douglas:
>>
>> On compiling with  Linux  2.6.28-19-generic #62-Ubuntu
>>
>> I now get:
>>
>> dvb_demux.c: In function 'dvbdmx_write':
>> dvb_demux.c:1137: error: implicit declaration of function 'memdup_user'
>> dvb_demux.c:1137: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a
>> cast
>>
>> This is probably due to changeset 2ceef3d75547
>>
>> which introduced the use of this function:
>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/diff/2ceef3d75547/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c
>>
>> This function is not available in linux/string.h in kernel 2.6.29 and lower.
>>
>> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/string.h?v=2.6.28
>>
>> Could you please advise me on what to do ?
>
> For this issue, I have fixed right now, please try again with a
> updated repository. But since I have commited several patches
> yesterday,
> we have another one that probably will reach your compilantion (the
> kfifo one). I will work to fix this one too.
>
> Thanks for the report.

Ok, should be working right now, I have made the backports
needed/adjusts to compile agains 2.6.29. Let me know if you have any
problem.
Tomorrow I will continue commiting patches to get hg synced with git.

Thanks
Douglas