[Buildroot] [PATCH] gst-fsl-plugins: fix build for kernel headers >= 3.10

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Jul 26 07:02:57 UTC 2014


Dear Gary Bisson,

On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:34:30 -0700, Gary Bisson wrote:
> This package couldn't build using a toolchain with kernel headers >=
> 3.10 because of the use of VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_IDENT. As stated in
> videodev2.h, this ioctl should never be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gary Bisson <bisson.gary at gmail.com>
> ---
> Yann, Thomas, all,
> After looking at the source code it appears that nothing justifies the use of
> that obsolete ioctl. Its only purpose is to get the video device name so this
> patch actually removes those unnecessary calls.
> Thanks,
> Gary

So, if I'm correct, this supersedes the patches from Yann
(http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/373813/ and
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/373814/), right ?

Thanks,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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