[pvrusb2] // error compiling pvrusb2 on 2.6.16-1-686 //

[Julian Oliver]

..on Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:02:11AM -0500, Mike Isely wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Julian Oliver wrote:
> 
> >
> > hi there,
> >
> > i have error output (attached) while building the pvrusb2 driver against
> > 2.6.16-1-686 on a Debian sid system. as far as i can see the right
> > sources and headers are being resourced.
> >
> > it's likely the issue is very simple and a fault at my end.
> 
> The issue is very simple and it's not your fault.  You're just the most 
> recent person to get victimized by it.
> 
> >
> > notably it builds fine against 2.6.15 sources.
> 
> Yeah, because the trigger for the problem got introduced in the 2.6.16 
> kernel.  The fault lay with the pvrusb2 driver however.  I was doing 
> something really ugly to work around a need to include a header which is 
> in a private part of the kernel source tree (and thus not always present 
> in distro kernel trees).  A structure in that header got moved in 2.6.16 
> (to a more public spot - where it really belongs anyway).  Thus the 
> problem.
> 
> The snapshot I just released fixes this.

thanks! the driver compiles smoothly now..

julian

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