On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Gabriel Velo wrote:
>Hello.
>
>I realized that the jar javax-usb-ri-linux_0.10.6 can't compile for
>2.5.x and 2.6.x kernel because the change of some struct in the
>usbdevice_fs.h header.
>
>usbdevfs_ctrltransfer was redefined to
>
>struct usbdevfs_ctrltransfer {
> __u8 bRequestType;
> __u8 bRequest;
> __u16 wValue;
> __u16 wIndex;
> __u16 wLength;
> __u32 timeout; /* in milliseconds */
> void __user *data;
>};
>
>all its fields was renamed but in JavaxUsbActive.c are the old names
>still.
ah, yes they have. Ok I fixed it in CVS. Thanks!
>
>When I tried to fix it I found that in JavaUsbKernel we are determining
>the kernel version at runtime by setKernelVersion. Why doesn't we
>determine it at compile time with linux/version.h and the
>LINUX_VERSION_CODE and KERNEL_VERSION macros?
Because then you would have a JNI library that only worked for that
specific kernel version. Wouldn't you rather have a JNI library that
works for all kernel versions regardless of what version it was compiled
with?
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