Current F14 kernel build failures

[Jarod Wilson]

On Dec 22, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> linux-2.6-v4l-dvb-update.patch adds a new VIA camera driver 
> (CONFIG_VIDEO_VIA_CAMERA, disabled in the configuration) which doesn't 
> build when enabled.

Its disabled intentionally, because its known to require newer via
driver bits, only present in 2.6.37, iirc.

> The same patch undeclares I2C_HW_B_RIVA which breaks the build of
> rivafb-i2c.o (Which is also disabled in fedora configuration, 
> CONFIG_FB_RIVA_I2C):
> 
>   CC [M]  drivers/video/riva/rivafb-i2c.o
> drivers/video/riva/rivafb-i2c.c: In function 'riva_setup_i2c_bus':
> drivers/video/riva/rivafb-i2c.c:97: error: 'I2C_HW_B_RIVA' undeclared 
> (first use in this function)
> drivers/video/riva/rivafb-i2c.c:97: error: (Each undeclared identifier 
> is reported only once
> drivers/video/riva/rivafb-i2c.c:97: error: for each function it appears in.)

Probably also requires additional upstream patches. The i2c device
ID stuff has been deprecated for a while, and was removed entirely.

However, I have to ask... Why should we care that something we have
explicitly disabled doesn't build? :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com