Re: no pcmcia support

On 15/08/2006 12:17, Rebsamen Brice wrote:
> I don't have choice, I must stick with kernel 2.6.15, because 2.6.16 is
> not yet supported by RTAI. Unless there is an earlier version of comedi
> that would do?
> 
> So I will go for your unrecommended suggestion.
> 
> Concerning that patch: I am not familiar with patches, so I didn't
> manage to run it. From the linux source dir I tried 'patch -p1 -u
> --dry-run < comedi.patch' but it failed. In the first place it was
> asking me which file to patch, and then would report Hunk failure...
> Please help me

You don't need the patch if you are only using 2.6.15 unless Ubuntu 
played the same tricks as Fedora by implementing API changes that don't 
match the vanilla kernel with the same version number (basically, 
Fedora's 2.6.15 kernel includes the PCMCIA API changes from 2.6.16).

If you're in the comedi top level directory, 'patch -p0 < comedi.patch' 
should work.

> Are the 6 revised modules independent? I know I need ni_mio_cs.c, should
> I also update others. How should I get them? (I am not familiar with CVS
> either). I can get ni_mio_cs 1.74 from the web interface to cvs, but not
> 1.69. Maybe 1.74 will do just fine...?

You can get them via the web interface if you click on the filename in 
the left-hand column, find the entry with the desired revision number 
and use the '(as text)' link in that entry to view or download the plain 
text version of that revision.

Or with cvs, you can checkout a particular revision using the -r option, 
e.g. 'cvs co -r1.16 comedi/drivers/cb_das16_cs.c'.  It is also possible 
to checkout from CVS using the -D option to specify a cut-off 
time-stamp.  The following should check out everything within a crucial 
34 minute period:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous_at_cvs.comedi.org:/cvs/comedi login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous_at_cvs.comedi.org:/cvs/comedi co -D '2006-07-11 
19:00' comedi

> And finally: if it fails, have I any hope that there will be support for
> 2.6.15 in the future? Let say within one month? Or should I just try
> something else, e.g. back to kernel 2.4.20 :(

It's on my list of things to do, but I can't promise any timescale. 
Hopefully within a month.

I think comedi-0.7.70 works for kernel versions up to 2.6.10 (maybe 
2.6.11 - I forget the exact version!).

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