Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] pwlib hints with kernel 2.6.0

[Dennis Gilmore <dennis dgilmore net>]

Once upon a time at band camp Thu, 16 Oct 2003 9:08 pm, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le jeu 16/10/2003 à 12:42, Dennis Gilmore a écrit :
> > Yes indeed  it is 2.4 based  but i was testing out 2.6.0  to see how well
> > it was progressing.  it will have everything straight out of the box  to
> > support a 2.6.0 kerenl  so i would not be supprissed to see people
> > starting to use the newer kernels.  i will look into it more.  hopefully
> > i will be able to get the spca50x  driver building against 2.6.0  also 
> > to test that.  i need to read up on the api changes.
>
> The API didn't change (except that V4L2 has been introduced but we don't
> support it yet). However, some drivers didn't fully respect the V4L API,
> hence PWLIB Hints were added. For example, with bttv, it breaks with
> 2.6.0, that is why we changed the HINTS so that they work both on 2.4.0
> and 2.6.0, but I'm surprised it doesn't work at all for you (perhaps
> your version is too ancient). I would really appreciate if you could
> invest a bit of time in that so that we don't have bad surprises when
> releasing 1.00.
>
> Any other person running 2.6.0 should mail us success or failure reports
> with the 2.6.0 kernel.


I was refering to some of the IO API documents  the headers that are used in 
the spca50x driver wont compile  due to what looks like header option 
changes.

the kernel  i was running is 2.6.0-test7