Re: [Linux-uvc-devel] Problems compiling trunk on rawhide

[Peter R. <pbr...@gm...>]

Hi Laurent,

> Hi Peter,
>
> sorry for the delay, I've been pretty busy (and the next 3 weeks are going to
> be even worse).

No problem, know that feeling all too well myself.

> > Been a while since I've had time to play with the uvc driver but now
> > it doesn't seem to compile on Fedora Rawhide (will become FC5 in the
> > next week or so) with gcc 4.1. Not sure if its a kernel header file
> > that's missing from  the fedora kernel packages.
>
> Linux 2.6.16 will include a few V4L2 changes which break source compatibility.
> The linux-uvc driver has been updated with conditional compilation based on
> the kernel version number. It seems that Fedora has applied the V4L2 patches
> to a 2.6.15 kernel. I don't know how to check for FC-specific kernel version
> numbers as I have no FC-based Linux box.

The fedora rawhide kernel is running 2.6.16rc5-git12/git13 and will no
doubt be 2.6.16 pretty shortly after it comes out. So does the driver
work with 2.6.16?

Peter