From: Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>
To: Robert Schwebel <robert@schwebel.de>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Including fb.h from userspace
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:29:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040128182942.GA10435@guug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040128104112.GM23652@pengutronix.de>
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:41:13AM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> I'm trying to compile the XFree86-4.3.99.10 framebuffer driver with
> Linux-2.6.1. It breaks because the driver includes the kernel's fb.h
> which includes other stuff which seems not to be userland clean.
>
> What's the "right" way or variant to include fb.h from userland?
Yea, several people has posted patches to fix the problem but
they are not getting merged. Basically you must 'move' fb_pixmap
to the __KERNEL area and move some includes from top (i remember
to leave just <asm/types.h> in top, everything else to __KERNEL
area) in file include/linux/fb.h
-solca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-28 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 10:41 Including fb.h from userspace Robert Schwebel
2004-01-28 17:06 ` James Simmons
2004-01-28 18:29 ` Otto Solares [this message]
2004-02-02 18:00 ` James Simmons
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