[mythtv] Re:[PATCH] Re: ivtv settings patch (revisited)

[Thomas Husemann]

<zitiere wer="Geoffrey Hausheer">
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:04:22 +0100, "Simon Kenyon simon-at-koala.ie
> |mythtv/1.0-Allow|" <gckchlpjvn0t at sneakemail.com> said:
>> On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:44, Isaac Richards wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:37 am, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>> > > i think you will find that this is because the videodev2.h file in
>> ivtv
>> > > is out of sync with the kernel
>> > > check and you will find they are different
>> > > i posted a working one to the ivtv list about 10 days ago
>> >
>> > As the ivtv driver comes with its own videodev2.h, you should use that
>> when
>> > you compile the driver.
>>
>> i've been away for a week so my memory is rusty
>>
>> but i found that when i upgraded to 2.4.22 i had to make these changes
>> to
>> get
>> things to work. i recall that v4l2 has changed some of the ioctls and
>> ivtv
>> has not
>>
>> hence my suggestion
>>
>> i have to say that it does work and now the brightness/contrast/hue
>> ioctls
>> works again - before i made these changes they would return an invalid
>> ioctl
>> message
>>
> Then my suggestion would be 'don't apply the v4l2 patches to the kernel'
> (of course this won't help for people using 2.6).  It seems annoying that
> we have potentially 3 versions of the videodev2.h file around: myth's,
> ivtv's, and the kernel's.  This will not be easy to keep coordinated as
> stuff changes.  perhaps we should find a way to detect and use the
> kernel's version of videodev2.h before trying to use the
> videodev2_myth.h?
>
> .Geoff
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I will try that tomorrow...

regards Thomas

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Thomas Husemann
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