Re: [PATCH] add udev support to mga_vid svn

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Attila Kinali wrote:

>> Come on, someone else must have compiled mga_vid on smp? Did it work?
>
> I did on my old machine which i replaced a few weeks ago.
> And yes, it worked. Although there might be some locking
> problems within mga_vid (aka race conditions), the code
> itself works on smp systems.

Ok.

>> I have the source with the kernel cfg.. Humm, but CONFIG_SMP
>> isnt set:
>
> Which suggests that you have the wrong kernel source.

Unfortunable it doesnt exist any kernel-devel-smp for FC5 (or for other FC 
versions). Before I used FC3 and used smp there aswell, but there it 
worked to compile mga_vid.

>
>> But mga_vid doesnt care about what the .config says I guess?
>> I guess I'll have to build my own kernel if nothing else work.
>> (I have too many computers, I want to avoid to build kernels if its
>> possible).
>
> No, the exact settings in .config ARE IMPORTANT. That's
> why the kernel checks for it when you load a module.
> (ok, most of them are not, but there are a few that matter,
> and these are checked)

It didnt help to change to CONFIG_SMP=y in the .config and recompile 
mga_vid. Not that I would belive it would but anyway.