evdev compilation problems

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Thu Aug 3 23:54:51 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:46 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:28:39PM -0400, Jon Grosshart wrote:
> > Zephaniah, I know your probably pretty busy but was wondering if you could
> > shed some light on this..
> 
> Hrm, I see what the problem is alright, and I'm afraid I don't have a
> good solution for it, not really. (I could do some work code wise to try
> and remove the requirement, but..)
> 
> Basicly, we need 2.6.x headers.  We make some attempt to work on a 2.4
> kernel, but compiling against 2.4 headers becomes a good bit more
> complicated.

One way to deal with this kind of problem would be to have a copy of the
required kernel headers in the driver tree.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |          http://tungstengraphics.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer





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