On Saturday 25 March 2006 00:14, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 March 2006 00:03, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:17:07PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 23 March 2006 03:39, Stephen C. North wrote:
> > > > > ivtv-0.4.3 is called the most recent stable release but it
> > > > > does not compile against 2.6.15 (some I2C defines missing).
> > > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ I'm gonna kill the fedora guys! The kernel reports
> > > > itself as a 2.6.15, but it really is a 2.6.16-rc6. Which
> > > > braindead person made that idiotic decision?
> > >
> > > It's hard to tell, as the current versioning scheme was decided
> > > some ages ago (at least before 2002). The question is why doesn't
> > > modern Fedora Core fix this. I brought this up, but there will be
> > > no change of versioning policy.
> >
> > I wouldn't have minded so much if only the label was 2.6.15, but
> > the internal version number is also 2.6.15, even though this kernel
> > has loads of i2c core changes that are 2.6.16 specific.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm going to make a workaround for this, otherwise I'll be
> > answering these questions for the next few months :-(
>
> I wouldn't bother, because there is only this one kernel rpm with
> this mismatch, this kernel is flawed in several ways like not being
> able to load nvidia, ati, madwifi, ndiswrapper and the like, and a
> replacement kernel (true 2.6.16, rpm also called that way) is already
> in updates-testing.
Yes, but it is in the initial FC5 iso download, so unless that's
replaced many people will just pick that and install ivtv over it. And
I get the complaints... Not only compile problems, it also introduces a
bug in ivtv-osd.c (also checks against the kernel version and picks the
wrong path).
It's not much work, the advantage is that this 0.6 release is for the
2.6.16 kernel only, so I can just remove some tests.
Hans
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