Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] Fwd: Re: [lcd4linux] uClinux patch.

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi Hans,

>> I will provide a special configure target "--with-drivers=HD44780-I2C"
>> which will compile the HD44780 driver withaout any parport references.
>> Please test & give feedback!
> 
> Great, i will try it. Will grab latest SVN whenever you have anything
> compiling.

already checked in!

>>> And i also needed to
>>> change fork() to vfork() since uClinux does not support fork().

> http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=living_without_forks&s=vfork

Ok, got it.

What about the 'daemonize()' stuff in lcd4linux.c (there's a double-fork) ?

>> is there any *reliable* preporcessor constant I could use?
> 
> Use #ifdef UCLINUX
> is the commony used macro whever doing special cases for uClinux, it should
> allways be defined when compiling towards uclinux.

Ok, I will prepare a patch.


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