LIRC compile problems Kernel 2.6.3

Apr 20, 2004 3 Replies
R

Hi



Can anybody help me, i've a (several) problem(s) during the compilation of Lirc0.7.4 on Kernel 2.6.3 (Mandrake 10.) on an embedded VIA Board


~/lirc-07.0pre4/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:87 error:parse error before "devfs_handle_t"



~/lirc-07.0pre4/drivers/lirc_dev/lirc_dev.c:102 dereferencing pointer to incomplete type



the code of lirc_dev.c looks ok to me



Does anybody know whether LIRC is supported for Kernel 2.6.x since I had some problems regarding the kernel sources as well ?



thanks



Robert


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K

LIRC distributions are a mess. There hasn't been a release in over a year(!). The current kernel is just beginning to to be supported.

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The real information is buried in the mailing list archive.
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(I use LIRC under 2.6. I'm still trying to figure out how to use two devices at once.)

--kyler

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Hi Robert,

Just grab the kernel patches from:

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And build the module inside the kernel tree. It's a lot easier than trying to build

2.6 modules stand-alone.

Regards,

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Hi Damion

Thanks for the "Kernel Patch Trick" it finally worked. I had to modify the lirc_serial.c as described in

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as well

kind regards

Robert

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