Re: [Spca50x-devs] SPCA driver on fedora 5; fedora users file build error bug to your kernel-maintainer, thx

[thomas schorpp <t.schorpp@xxxxxx>]

Mirco wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I have been using the SPCA driver for nearly two years for my logitech
> quickcam express and it always works flawlessly.
> I have been installing the driver mainly on Red Hat like systems such as
> fedora and never had a problem.
> 
> I used it lastly on fedora core 4 without any problem even with kernel
> 2.6.15.
> 
> I am now running Fedora 5 which was released on Monday and it is running
> a 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernel to which I applied the usual kernel-devel
> package on order to be able to build modules against the kernel.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is what I get at the MAKE/MAKE CLEAN command:
> 
> [mirco@localhost spca5xx-20060301]$ make clean
> rm -r -f drivers/usb/*.o drivers/usb/.spcadecoder.o.cmd \
> drivers/usb/.spca5xx.o.cmd  *.o *.ko *.mod.* .[a-z]* core *.i
> [mirco@localhost spca5xx-20060301]$ make
>    Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
>    Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
> make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> SUBDIRS=/home/mirco/spca5xx-20060301 CC=cc modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-i686'
>   CC [M]  /home/mirco/spca5xx-20060301/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o
> /home/mirco/spca5xx-20060301/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c:8414: error: unknown
> field ‘owner’ specified in initializer
> /home/mirco/spca5xx-20060301/drivers/usb/spca5xx.c:8414: warning:
> initialization from incompatible pointer type
> make[2]: *** [/home/mirco/spca5xx-20060301/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o] Error
> 1
> make[1]: *** [_module_/home/mirco/spca5xx-20060301] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5-i686'
> make: *** [default] Error 2
> 
> Can anyone help me understand what's going on?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> 
> Mirco
> 

this is not true.

tom1:/usr/src/spca5xx-20060301# make
   Building SPCA5XX driver for 2.5/2.6 kernel.
   Remember: you must have read/write access to your kernel source tree.
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/spca5xx-20060301 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16'
  CC [M]  /usr/src/spca5xx-20060301/drivers/usb/spca5xx.o
  CC [M]  /usr/src/spca5xx-20060301/drivers/usb/spcadecoder.o
  LD [M]  /usr/src/spca5xx-20060301/spca5xx.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
  CC      /usr/src/spca5xx-20060301/spca5xx.mod.o
  LD [M]  /usr/src/spca5xx-20060301/spca5xx.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16'
tom1:/usr/src/spca5xx-20060301# 

pls file a bug to Your distro's kernel maintainer if his kernel 
is patched to break.

y
tom








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