From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758379AbZBBVN3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:13:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753896AbZBBVNS (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:13:18 -0500 Received: from marvin.heresymail.org ([87.106.62.5]:57523 "EHLO marvin.heresymail.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753579AbZBBVNR (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:13:17 -0500 Message-ID: <498761E7.3080006@walrond.org> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:13:11 +0000 From: Andrew Walrond User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: jengelh@medozas.de, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.28 headers break kbd and net-tools userspace builds References: <20090128.122924.106238702.davem@davemloft.net> <4986CC6D.4090904@walrond.org> <20090202.120507.152093960.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20090202.120507.152093960.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > > There isn't anything we can really do about these cases. > > No matter what we do, we break the userland build in one way or > another. > What exactly is the purpose of the kernel headers? Are there some definitions in the kernel headers that will never be available from glibc? Is it perhaps possible to work towards exporting kernel headers for the sole purpose of building glibc, and all other packages should be able to build against glibc's headers? Andrew Walrond