Re: lirc 0.8.5 on RHEL5/RHEL4

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Aug 31, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Christoph Bartelmus wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Axel Thimm "Axe...@AT..." wrote:
> [...]
>> 0.8.4a builds fine on both, but 0.8.5 fails with
>>
>> RHEL5 (2.6.18 based):
>
> Fixed that one.

Oh good, I started to look at that this morning, and quickly got  
sidetracked... I can confirm that fixes the lirc_dev build on RHEL5.

> [...]
>> RHEL4 (2.6.9 based):
>> In file included from /builddir/lirc-0.8.5/drivers/lirc_dev/ 
>> lirc_dev.c:64:
>> /builddir/lirc-0.8.5/drivers/lirc_dev/../../drivers/kcompat.h:388:  
>> error:
>> conflicting types for 'kzalloc' include/linux/slab.h:101: error:  
>> previous
>> declaration of 'kzalloc' was here /builddir/lirc-0.8.5/drivers/ 
>> lirc_dev/../.
>> ./drivers/kcompat.h:388: error: conflicting types for 'kzalloc'
>> include/linux/slab.h:101: error: previous declaration of 'kzalloc'  
>> was here
>
> This doesn't seem to be a 2.6.9 kernel. There's no kzalloc  
> declaration in
> the original sources.

The joy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and backporting stuff for years  
and years. Looks like kzalloc was added fairly early on to the RHEL4  
kernel.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
ja...@wi...