From: Dave Dodge <dododge@dododge.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: drop symbolink link to kernel headers
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 03:42:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040121224205.D16000@mail.puug.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5701.1074622084@www46.gmx.net>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:40:50AM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?ker wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> > No one should be putting their kernel code in /usr/src/linux, so that's
> > just a bad thing to start with. /usr/src/linux points to the version of
> > linux that your glibc was built against, that is all.
>
> No, that's /usr/include/{linux,asm} you're thinking of. They should be
> _copies_ of the kernel headers glibc was built against, and not symlinks
> to /usr/src/linux/{include,asm}. /usr/src/linux can be whatever you like,
True. But because of past misbehavior by distributions and glibc, leading
to the sort of confusion above about what might be found in /usr/src/linux,
you should really avoid using /usr/src/linux for anything at all.
Since at least early 2.4 the kernel README has explictly stated that
kernels should not be placed in /usr/src/linux.
> and third-party, out-of-tree modules tend to look there
I'm sure they do. But that doesn't mean they should :-)
-Dave Dodge
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-22 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 18:08 PATCH: drop symbolink link to kernel headers Svetoslav Slavtchev
2004-01-21 23:53 ` Greg KH
2004-01-22 0:40 `
2004-01-22 1:51 `
2004-01-22 3:42 ` Dave Dodge [this message]
2004-01-22 17:06 ` linas
2004-01-22 17:24 ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2004-01-22 17:28 ` Greg KH
2004-01-22 17:31 ` Greg KH
2004-02-03 0:52 ` Greg KH
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