From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: drop symbolink link to kernel headers
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:28:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040122172842.GH14310@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5701.1074622084@www46.gmx.net>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:40:50AM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>
> > No one should be putting their kernel code in /usr/src/linux, so that's
> > just a bad thing to start with. /usr/src/linux points to the version of
> > linux that your glibc was built against, that is all.
>
> No, that's /usr/include/{linux,asm} you're thinking of. They should be
> _copies_ of the kernel headers glibc was built against, and not symlinks
> to /usr/src/linux/{include,asm}.
Ah yes, you are correct. Got that mixed up...
> /usr/src/linux can be whatever you like, and third-party, out-of-three
> modules tend to look there (after /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build and
> /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)) for the current kernel headers.
But /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build is much better than defaulting to
/usr/src/linux
thanks,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 18:08 PATCH: drop symbolink link to kernel headers Svetoslav Slavtchev
2004-01-21 23:53 ` Greg KH
2004-01-22 0:40 `
2004-01-22 1:51 `
2004-01-22 3:42 ` Dave Dodge
2004-01-22 17:06 ` linas
2004-01-22 17:24 ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2004-01-22 17:28 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-22 17:31 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 0:52 ` Greg KH
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