From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Bug#263348: linux-kernel-headers: asm/unaligned.h on powerpc
 is useless if __KERNEL__ is undefined
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:52:34 -0700
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To: Domenico Andreoli <cavok@debian.org>
Cc: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>, 263348@bugs.debian.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Vitaly Fertman <vitaly@namesys.com>

Domenico Andreoli wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:21:57PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
>  
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>>At Sat, 7 Aug 2004 00:50:06 +0200,
>>Domenico Andreoli wrote:
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>>>i have attached a workaround for bug #263348 in case nobody wants to
>>>fix it linux-kernel-headers.
>>>
>>>it should work although being not that elegant. i know it is fragile
>>>since relies on _PPC_ERRNO_H macro being defined by asm/errno.h on
>>>powerpc and that could change in any moment.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>the header file used is actually asm/byteroder.h and macro is
>_PPC_BYTEORDER_H. 1:3.6.18-2 used asm/error.h but this broke things in
>a manner i didn't understand.
>
>  
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>>Looking through the kernel source, it seems lkh should be fixed.  I
>>put the patch to lkh cvs.
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>good :)
>
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>>However, now we're base-freeze period, and at least I don't decide to
>>put new lkh package -18 into unstable and testing-proposed-updates
>>yet, so it's good idea to put workaround fix for reiserfsprogs.
>>
>>    
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>already put, uploaded and successfully built :)
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>>BTW, I think reiserfsprogs is tightly coupled with the kernel version,
>>so I wonder it's OK to use lkh package, instead of using kernel
>>headers which are included from the latest kernel source to
>>reiserfsprogs.
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>>    
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>don't know, Hans Reiser should be able to answer this question.
>
>cheers
>domenico
>
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vitaly is the maintainer for progs.  Vitaly?