Bug#373646: compiling em8300 with module-assistant would be nice

[Brendon Higgins]

Hi Lance,

What you have there looks like problems em8300 0.15.1 has with recent kernels, 
rather than a problem with module-assistant. I think 0.15.1 has problems with 
anything beyond 2.6.13 linux. (Which is why I'd like to have it updated ASAP. 
Unfortunately, I'm not a Debian dev, so I'm relying on Nicolas who seems to 
have been busy elsewhere, as of late.)

But looking at the changes I've made updating the em8300 package, it looks 
like I did have to do something to get m-a doing things properly.

Anyway, m-a support is something that has been worked on, and will be in the 
next revision, along with a bunch of other fixes.

Peace,
Brendon

You wrote (Saturday 17 June 2006 7:05 am):
 I don't know what any of this means, but here's the buildlog:

 /usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules MODDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686/build/..
 clean-modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 /usr/bin/make -w KERNEL_LOCATION=/lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686/build clean
 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 rm -f *.o *.ko *.mod.c .*.cmd .*.o.flags
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 perl debian/scripts/dh_modulecontrol --module --clean
 rm -rf /usr/src/modules/em8300/debian/em8300-modules-2.6.16-2-686
 if [ -f stamp-debian ]; then rm -f `cat stamp-debian`; fi
 rm -f stamp-debian
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 /usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules MODDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686/build/..
 binary-modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 /usr/bin/make -w KERNEL_LOCATION=/lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686/build clean
 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 rm -f *.o *.ko *.mod.c .*.cmd .*.o.flags
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 perl debian/scripts/dh_modulecontrol --module --clean
 rm -rf /usr/src/modules/em8300/debian/em8300-modules-2.6.16-2-686
 if [ -f stamp-debian ]; then rm -f `cat stamp-debian`; fi
 rm -f stamp-debian
 /usr/bin/make -w KERNEL_LOCATION=/lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686/build
 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/2.6.16-2-686/build
 SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/em8300 modules make[3]: Entering directory
 `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686'
   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.o
 /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:123: error: unknown field 'owner'
 specified in initializer /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:123: warning:
 initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
 /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:125: error: unknown field 'name'
 specified in initializer /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:125: warning:
 initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
 /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:127: error: unknown field 'flags'
 specified in initializer /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:127: error:
 'I2C_DF_NOTIFY' undeclared here (not in a function)
 /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c: In function 'adv717x_detect':
 /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:458: error: 'struct i2c_algorithm' has no
 member named 'id' /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:458: error:
 'I2C_ALGO_ISA' undeclared (first use in this function)
 /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:458: error: (Each undeclared identifier
 is reported only once /usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.c:458: error: for
 each function it appears in.) make[4]: ***
 [/usr/src/modules/em8300/adv717x.o] Error 1
 make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/em8300] Error 2
 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-2-686'
 make[2]: *** [build] Error 2
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 make[1]: *** [build-modules] Error 2
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/em8300'
 make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2


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Bug#373646: compiling em8300 with module-assistant would be nice

[Brendon Higgins]

Hi! I'm helping the maintainer Nicolas update of this package. (I ought to 
prod him about it again, actually ;-) )

Lance Simmons wrote (Thursday 15 June 2006 5:14 am):
 I've noticed that more and more modules can be compiled using
 module-assistant. It would be great if em8300 were one of them.  I've no
 idea how much of a pain it would be for the maintainer to arrange that, but
 from the end-user's perspective, module-assistant is a great thing.

Indeed it is. I've been using module-assistant to compile it for a while, and 
I don't recall doing anything special to get that working. IIRC, it was just 
already in the list. Have you actually tried using m-a to compile it? What 
was the result?

Peace,
Brendon


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Bug#373646: compiling em8300 with module-assistant would be nice

[Lance Simmons]

Package: em8300
Version: 0.15.1.dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist


I've noticed that more and more modules can be compiled using module-assistant. 
 
It would be great if em8300 were one of them.  I've no idea how much of a pain
it would be for the maintainer to arrange that, but from the end-user's 
perspective, module-assistant is a great thing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages em8300 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1  Debian configuration management sy
ii  perl  5.8.8-6Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  ucf   2.0011 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii  wget  1.10.2-1   retrieves files from the web

em8300 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded


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