Once upon a time, Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> said: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:47:12AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > I'm looking at packaing mpt-status (get status info from LSI MPT SAS > > RAID controllers) for Fedora and EPEL. However, to build, it needs some > > include files from the kernel source, specifically from the > > drivers/message/fusion directory. I've built an RPM using an extra > > tarball of all the .h files under that directory (using the 3.11.7 > > kernel source), and it works (and it also works on an older kernel under > > RHEL 6). > > If the headers describe a stable interface that should be used by > userland then it's a kernel bug that they're not being exported. If they > don't, you shouldn't use them.
I believe the headers describe what is intended to be a stable interface. Would that be something I should bring up on linux-kernel? If the interface is supposed to be stable, asking upstream kernel to change isn't going to help make a package any time soon (and likely never for EPEL). Is it permissible to carry the necessary headers in the SRPM until they are no longer needed? -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
