Bug 56547 – module spca50x builds with unresolved symbol on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r20

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Corvus 2004-07-09 09:21:41 UTC]

when emerging spca50x-0.30.ebuild on gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r20 the resulting modules has 1 unresolved symbol to "pte_offset"

it refers to a kernel internal symbol in linux/include/asm*/pgtable.h which must have been removed by some patch

gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r20 defines "pte_offset_kernel" there instead

changing line #468 in drivers/usb/spca50x.c in the spca50x-src-0.30 package

ptep = pte_offset(pmd, adr);

into

ptep = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, adr);

fixes the problem, so maybe the ebuild could patch this eventually,
it worked for me, the camera was detected and runs :-)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-07-20 07:43:32 UTC]

I am still not 100% sure for which kernel versions this change is ok and currently don't have time to investigate. Your report is not forgotten :-)

[Comment 2 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-10-07 02:54:35 UTC]

Didn't find a satisfying solution for that version, but there have been updates to their homepage. Will perhaps make a CVS snapshot and give that a try.

[Comment 3 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2005-01-01 17:51:41 UTC]

According to Mike Doty ([e-mail]) there will soon be the successor package in portage. Closing this as WONTFIX, sorry.