Re: [uml-devel] Re: merge status

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Monday 21 November 2005 04:25, Nix wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Friday 18 November 2005 20:33, Blaisorblade wrote:
> >> Btw, why hasn't maszur went to post patches to kernel headers to make
> >> them includable from userspace instead of merging kernel changes into
> >> his headers (which is much more work)?
> >
> > For the same reason the glibc guys don't ship a patch against the kernel
> > headers but ship cleaned upkernel headers.  It's much smaller and
> > simpler, and the patch would break with every single release.  Besides,
> > the patch isn't what we need to build libc, the cleaned up headers are. 
> > It would add an unnecessary level of indirection and _never_ get merged
> > into the main kernel?
>
> One problem is that Mariusz's linux-libc-headers work seems to have
> stalled :( the last headers out there are for 2.6.12, and increasingly much
> (e.g. iptables) needs to be pointed directly at the kernel headers again.
>
> I hope linux-libc-headers isn't dead. It looked like it was turning into
> a very good aggregation point, with patches coming in from Ubuntu and RH
> among others.

Hopefully he won't mind me quoting from his email on Nov 4th.  Project's not 
dead, he's just busy with Real Life (tm):

> I'm also CCing Wojtek Cieciwa (cieciwa@pld-linux.org), since he's one of the 
> guys that need a new llh release and I should be releasing 2.6.14.0 right 
> about now (my world kind of collapsed a few days ago and I'm out of the 
> picture for don't know how long; I hope to be able to recover within a week, 
> but who nows how things will work out; keep me CCed though).

Rob


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