From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EeD2B-0003rB-0p for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:52:43 -0800 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140] helo=grelber.thyrsus.com) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1EeD29-00070D-70 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:52:43 -0800 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: merge status References: <20051109133558.513facef.akpm@osdl.org> <200511182126.22095.rob@landley.net> <87hda65mbv.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> In-Reply-To: <87hda65mbv.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511210851.20951.rob@landley.net> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:51:20 -0600 To: Nix Cc: Blaisorblade , user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mmazur@kernel.pl 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel