RE: [Lcd4linux-devel] Re: fixes to the i2c patch that Luis suppli ed

[Luis.F.Correia <Lui...@se...>]

Hi! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Reinelt [mailto:re...@eu...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:02 AM
> To: lcd4linux-devel
> Subject: [Lcd4linux-devel] Re: fixes to the i2c patch that 
> Luis supplied
> 
> Take #2: this should have gone to the list :-)
> 
> Hi Paul and others,
> 
> Paul Kamphuis wrote:
> > I created a patch file for the corrections I made to 
> current CVS tree to
> > make the i2c work properly.
> > I applied the following changes:
> > drv_generic_i2c.c
> > - store section in the open function
> > - made Section variable const to remove compiler warning
> I reverted this one a bit. I casted the parameter on assignment to the
> global variable, and stored 'Driver', too. Same as in 
> drv_generic_parport.
> 
> > configure.in
> > - modified the i2c verification/detection to correctly 
> detect and enable
> > i2c support
> > note: i2c support requires a 2.6 kernel and kernel headers 
> installed. I
> > assume this detection would be
> > sufficient for proper i2c enable/disable
> 
> But it still does not work here. I again get tons of errors:

Try this, go to your current kernel source and enable I2C support.
Then, run make dep.

I remember having to do such a trick to get it compiling on 2.4 a
loooooong time ago :)

Btw, my 2.4 development system is not ready yet...

Luis Correia