On 6/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I 've been using David 's patches and Jim 's headers script on my new
experimental build. As it has been said here already, there are two, fairly
distinct patches:
Cool. I was hoping that someone would play around with the David Woodhouse stuff this
that is probably the closest to "upstream's intentions."
* git-hdrcleanup.patch
( Which generally just moves stuff around in order to put internal stuff
inside #ifdef __KERNEL__ et al and remove bogus includes like <config.h> )
and
* git-hdrinstall.patch
( Which creates a new Makefile target "headers_install. This runs selected
headers through unifdef and installs them in /lib/modules/VERSION/kabi
IIRC )
Btw, both of these patches are in the latest -mm.
I believe the first has the most chances to be merged soon (2.6.18), since
it
belongs to the kind of patches linus himself had _welcomed_ some time ago.
It seems like the header cleanups will definitely happen, but the make
headers_install, who knows.
The headers installed in kabi/ are currently not of much use, without
perhaps
even more sanitizing (which is probably done in glibc-kernheaders?).
Yes, there's more sanitizing in glibc-kernheaders.spec, but it is fairly
simple. A little bit of massaging, then one big sed on all the headers. I
have unpacked a recent SRPM and spec here:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/glibc-kernheaders/
So, my proposal for the headers is after the 6.2 release, when the trunk
switches to new gcc/glibc, that we should use Jim 's script. This will be
a solution for at least six months - a year, since it really doesn't seem
that
upstream will have fixed things until then.
It's seeming like a better proposal as more time goes by. Plus, I think when
the header cleanups and possibly `headers_install' target get in upstream,
there'll be a much stabler base to play from. We should be able to diff our
headers against the RedHat ones, too, as a sanity check.
--
Dan
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