From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751808AbWD1UAf (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:00:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751811AbWD1UAf (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:00:35 -0400 Received: from dsl092-053-140.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.53.140]:33227 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751808AbWD1UAe (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:00:34 -0400 From: Rob Landley To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] 'make headers_install' kbuild target. Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:59:05 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Adrian Bunk , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1145672241.16166.156.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <200604281415.53325.rob@landley.net> <1146248859.11909.565.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1146248859.11909.565.camel@pmac.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604281559.05597.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 28 April 2006 2:27 pm, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 14:15 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > Fedora recently migrated from a linux-kernel-headers package that smells > > a bit like Mazur's to the glibc-kernheaders package. > > Fedora used to be on an ancient version of the headers, forked and > manually sanitised from 2.4 some time ago and manually (but > inconsistently) updated to date with new syscalls &c as and when bugs > got filed against the package. > > As of two days ago, Fedora is using the result of 'make headers_install' > instead. Speaking as maintainer of Fedora's glibc-kernheaders, I think > it's a massive improvement, > > Other distributions look like they should be able to change too -- the > whole point in approaching them before implementing this was to confirm > that they'd be happy with it. I don't know _when_ that'll happen though. > Obviously it makes sense for them to wait while I use Fedora rawhide as > a test bed. I'm not waiting. :) I'm making a cross-compiler for ARM (by hand, figuring out how to do it), and I have a whole weekend to thump on it. I want to build a kernel, uClibc, and busybox, and get them to boot under qemu-system-arm. That will be the "ok, declare victory and document what I just did" moment. I'll let you know what breaks. (I have Mazur's old 2.6.12 here for comparison, so I may even have patches. You never know... :) Rob -- Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.