> here the pointer to the historic mail from linus, quite dated already > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0587.html
Thanks. I have read the e-mail. I am not a C programmer, despite managing to hack out a kernel patch for dasd_diag.c. But I do know other programming languages, and I am familiar with the concept of including a structure declaration from a library, which is what these "headers" appear to be to me. And I think that I understand, at least in principle, the problem that Linus is trying to address in this e-mail. It appears to me that Debian has long ago solved the problem that Linus is trying to work around in this e-mail. For example, on Debian Lenny, /usr/include/asm is no longer a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/asm, or to any other directory for that matter. /usr/include/asm is a stand-alone directory in its own right. Linus' recommendation that kernel builders put their source code elsewhere, in particular he recommended ~/src, was a workaround for the "symlink problem", which no longer exists. That's my take on it. Am I missing something here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
