compile error kdebase-3.5.4/kcontrol/joystick

[Martin Koller]

Hi list,

On Friday 18 August 2006 11:44, Martin Koller wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of the joystick kcontrol module.
> I check what must be done about it.

My first idea was to ask the linux/joystick developer about a solution, but 
since I did not get any response, I try to ask the same question here, as I 
know that here are a lot of very good experts:

This was my original mail:
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Hi,

I'm the maintainer of KDEs joystick calibration module, and recently I came 
across a compile problem under a newer kernel (2.6.18) than mine:

/usr/include/linux/input.h:801: error: `kernel_ulong_t' does not name a type

I have seen that the problem is due to the fact that kernel_ulong_t is only 
defined when also __KERNEL__ is defined - which is not the case in my 
user-space application.

I include linux/joystick.h to have the js_corr struct which includes 
linux/input.h

What do you think is the correct way to access the joystick values and what 
headers I am allowed to include in a user space program ?
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Also, I do not have a newer setup on a machine than my Suse 9.3, which does 
not have this compile problem. I'm not sure if it hurts my system when I 
simply copy some newer header files from a recent kernel into my original 
system installation to be able to reproduce this problem ... 

So I hope anyone has a good idea here ...

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