Re: [PATCH] Fix build on fedora-14 (and other older systems)

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Sat,  2 Sep 2017 07:15:02 -0700
greearb@candelatech.com wrote:

> diff --git a/include/linux/sysinfo.h b/include/linux/sysinfo.h
> index 934335a..3596b02 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sysinfo.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sysinfo.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/types.h>
>  
> +/* So we can compile on older OSs, hopefully this is correct. --Ben */
> +#ifndef __kernel_long_t
> +typedef long __kernel_long_t;
> +#endif
> +#ifndef __kernel_ulong_t
> +typedef unsigned long __kernel_ulong_t;
> +#endif
> +
>  #define SI_LOAD_SHIFT	16
>  struct sysinfo {
>  	__kernel_long_t uptime;		/* Seconds since boot */

I am not accepting this patch because all files in include/linux are automatically
regenerated from kernel 'make install_headers'. No exceptions. If you want to change
a header in include/linux it has to go through upstream kernel inclusion.