[linux-dvb] Re: insmod error

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> Le Vendredi 7 Mars 2003 18:41, Holger Waechtler a écrit :
>
> > Your kernel include files and kernel config don't match the running
> > kernel. Please go to http://www.kernel.org/, get a fresh kernel,
> > configure, build and install it properly and then rebuild the DVB driver
> > from scratch. Read and follow the build instructions in file DVB/INSTALL.
>
> IMHO, this is not a workable solution.
>
> As an end-user, I would prefer a more intelligent ./configure script wich 
> adapts DVB to RedHat 8.0 and 8.1, rather than having to adapt RedHat distro 
> to DVB.
Sorry, we are not willing (and even not able to) work around broken 
linux installations. RedHat distributions don't comply to the common 
simple scheme of installing kernel source, include and config files.

Either you establish a "I'm a fucked up RH user and want to join the 
fucked up RH user cummunity which is not able to build stand-alone 
kernel drivers self-help group" or (preferable) you get a sane 
distribution. (hint: Debian is pretty standard-conform and you don't 
have to pay any money for it, http://www.debian.org/. You can install 
and update it over the net.)

Or even better: contact your distibutor and ask him to fix these issues 
and provide a clean distribution which allows building kernel drivers 
without installing a new kernel (no matter if from 
http://www.kernel.org/ or some source RPMs from your installation 
disks...). You spent money for your distribution and can expect a little 
service and good-will to improve the next RH release.

The requirements to build a DVB driver are pretty simple:

- we expect kernel include files (matching the currently running 
kernel!!) in /usr/src/linux/include/ where /usr/src/linux/ is usually a 
link to the actual source directory, e.g. /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/.

- we expect the kernel .config file of the currently running kernel in 
/usr/src/linux/

nothing more. All other projects which build kernel drivers outside the 
kernel have pretty the same requirements.

Holger



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