Hi,
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 07:12:07PM +0200, Juergen Beisert wrote:
> tslib now has the patch "tslib: add upstream patch to relax the EV_VERSION
> check" (commit f34762e98181558ac6283908e37107a8f0929d91) in ptxdist.
> This prevents tslib failing more or less silently, when a more recent kernel
> is in use than the one the toolchain is compiled with ("tslib: Selected
> device uses a different version of the event protocol than tslib was compiled
> for").
>
> IMHO for ptxdist projects also containing a kernel, tslib should compile
> against local kernels header files instead the toolchain ones. I think using
> touches this would match more what the user expects.
Why? What would we gain from this?
This commit was added because EV_VERSION changed when some new features
where added. tslib does not use these new features, so it really doesn't
matter which kernel headers are used.
Michael
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