Re: [PATCH v3] linux-libc-headers_2.6.24: Add falloc.h to kernel exported headers

[Thilo Fromm <t.fromm@dresearch.de>]

Hello Paul,

>> This adds include/linux/falloc.h to the list of files exported by the kernel to the C library.
>> The include file is required for building e.g. a recent util-linux-ng against 2.6.24.
>>
>> Starting from 2.6.25 a similar patch has been accepted upstream (the mainline
>> kernel). For 2.6.24, however, falloc.h is not exported although it's present.
>>
[...]
>>   .../linux-libc-headers/files/export_falloc_h.patch |   11 +++++++++++
>> +++ b/recipes/linux-libc-headers/files/export_falloc_h.patch
>> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>> +upstream: OE-only
>
> Hmm, do you think it is OE only. As written in my other message I
> consider this an upstream patch, which has been committed already.
>
>          upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=040922c04cf2c8ac70be2e88a8a9614ecdb41d2e
>          comment: Patch is present in Linux kernel>= 2.6.25.

Technically, this upstreamed patch is not my patch. Upstream is way 
older, it's from a different author, etc. Plus it's included in 
successive kernel releases, but it's not in the version affected by my 
patch. From my point of view my patch is an OE-only hack because it 
back-ports to an older kernel version a different patch which originated 
from OE (?) a long time ago and then went mainline.

I'll of course change this to your suggestion if this is a problem. I 
did not do this yet so my patch won't get confused with the original one 
that went mainline.

Regards,
Thilo

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