Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:39:28 -0400 > "Michael Krufky" <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Mauro, >> >> The current version, and older versions of Ubuntu have a kernel module >> backport package, called "linux-ubuntu-modules" , where they backport >> modules into their older kernels so that users can have driver support >> without having to build the new drivers themselves. This becomes >> problematic when Ubuntu users go ahead and build the v4l-dvb >> repository anyway, for newer driver support. >> >> The LUM package stores the backported modules in /lib/modules/`uname >> -r`/ubuntu/media/ rather than in /lib/modules/`uname >> -r`/kernel/drivers/media/ , where we expect the modules to be. >> >> This change adds the known duplicated modules into v4l/obsolete.txt , >> so that the build system will automatically remove the known >> duplicated modules from the ubuntu/media/ tree before installing the >> new modules, preventing the wrong version of the module from loading. >> >> We can expect users to start complaining about problems loading >> v4l/dvb drivers soon, if we dont fix this now. Please merge these >> changes to prevent the problem before it starts. >> >> Please pull from: >> >> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mkrufky/hardy-lum-compat >> >> for the following: >> >> - Prevent possible conflicts with Ubuntu's L-U-M package >> - Add uvcvideo.ko to the list of duplicated modules from Ubuntu's LUM >> > > ../../../ubuntu/media/sms1xxx/sms1xxx > +../../../ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko > > Hmm... I think the .ko above is wrong. > > You're right -- I just corrected that in the tree -- my bad. > Also, I don't see you touching at the v4l core files. I've seen some Ubuntu > users complaining that their foo.ko module doesn't load due to the differences > between their old v4l core files and the newer ones. > > The same issue will happen also for DVB-S2 users, where dvb core should also be > replaced. > This is to delete the ubuntu backport modules -- they backport additional drivers against the v4l / dvb cores in their kernel, but they do not actually backport the cores themselves. This might change with intrepid++ , but for now, my current solution alleviates the issue. Please merge. Regards, Mike _______________________________________________ v4l-dvb-maintainer mailing list v4l-dvb-maintainer@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/v4l-dvb-maintainer