Package gspca-source Outdated

Sorry, forgot to point out the obvious. I'm reporting this now in hopes that the package could be updated before the official release of Gutsy.

not sure if the gspca-source is current now or not, but I do know the install instructions are invalid due to changes in the way modules are compiled:

/usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/gspca CC=gcc
 │ modules
 │ make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-19-rt'
 │ scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in
 │ "/usr/src/modules/gspca/Makefile". Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.
 │ make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/gspca] Error 2

Tried to build gspca on the latest ubuntu dev. Getting a lot of build errors, related to missing asm/semaphore.h, missing functions (video_usercopy), struct fields etc etc.

$ sudo make
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/gspca CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-2-generic'
  CC [M] /usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.o
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:54:27: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or directory
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca5xx_ioctl’:
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:2464: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_usercopy’
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: At top level:
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:2605: error: ‘v4l_compat_ioctl32’ undeclared here (not in a function)
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:2610: error: unknown field ‘owner’ specified in initializer
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:2610: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:2612: error: unknown field ‘type’ specified in initializer
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca50x_create_sysfs’:
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:2770: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_device_create_file’
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:2781: error: implicit declaration of function ‘video_device_remove_file’
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca5xx_probe’:
/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c:4302: error: incompatible types in assignment
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/gspca] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-2-generic'
make: *** [default] Error 2

As of 8.10, there are additional drivers distributed via the linux source package. Does this bug still affect you?

I do not actually know about additional drivers. I just tried to build gspca again - same error. All latest updates of intrepid are installed.

There were some changes in 2.6.27 kernel. I've found a patch here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=966932. Did `m-a build gspca` (it, obviously, failed), applied it (`zcat gspca.patch.gz | patch -p0`), then `m-a --not-unpack a-i gspca` and everything worked just fine.

How to apply this patch?
When i trying to run it : patch -p0 /usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c /usr/src/gspca.patch
I get the following error messages:
missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch
patching file /usr/src/modules/gspca/gspca_core.c
missing header for unified diff at line 114 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 114
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?

Hi, i'm marking this bug as dupe from bug #273727 Please check some workarounds in there, in fact it seems that latest intrepid kernel already has the module compiled and working. Further details at the bug in question

Thanks a lot