[clug] Need DVB drivers on CentOS 9 - custom kernel compile fails - solved

[Paul Wayper]

On 20/11/22 9:44 am, Paul Wayper via linux wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've reached the end of this particular rabbit-hole so I've come to ask the 
> CLUG people for ideas :-) 

Hi all, just thought I'd follow up with the solution.

It turned out that in CentOS (and RHEL) 9, the CONFIG_RC_CORE option has been 
turned off.  This causes a lot of remote control and interface modules to not 
be built.  It turns out that I couldn't read the information in `make 
menuconfig` well enough when it said that these options needed to be turned 
on.  Sure enough, I turned that option on and rebuilt my 6.0.5 kernel and all 
those modules compiled and installed.  So I now have working DVB drivers for 
the NovaT 500.

Thanks very much to Dave Airlie for helping walk me through the options and 
work out that the RC_CORE option was missing.  Thanks also to Adam Baxter for 
reaching out via Signal and chatting with me on it.  You both really helped me 
keep going and find the solution.  Thanks also to everyone else that wrote 
with suggestions.

Hope this helps,

Paul