Re: [cron job] v4l-dvb daily build 2.6.22 and up: ERRORS, 2.6.16-2.6.21: ERRORS

[Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:46:28 +0100
Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu> wrote:

> It seems that kernels before 2.6.24 (inclusively) do not have
> "__devinitconst", so  conex.c and etoms.c can only build with 2.6.25
> and later. Should USB_GSPCA_CONEX and USB_GSPCA_ETOMS be added to
> v4l/versions.txt?

The fix is not the right one. Some other gspca subdrivers use
"__devinitconst" (pac7302, pac7311, sonixb and spca506). The fix is to
define the macro for kernels < 2.6.25:

diff -r 174ad3097f17 linux/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.h
--- a/linux/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.h   Sun Dec 13 18:11:07
2009 +0100
+++ b/linux/drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.h   Mon Dec 14 09:28:51
2009 +0100 @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ /* compilation option */
 #define GSPCA_DEBUG 1
 
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 25)
+#define __devinitconst __section(.devinit.rodata)
+#endif
+
 #ifdef GSPCA_DEBUG
 /* GSPCA our debug messages */
 extern int gspca_debug;

I will ask to upload the changeset (actually in my test repository) as
soon as it is validated (i.e. if it works with hal).

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