Re: Udev 147 (and above) dependencies

[Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>]

On Dienstag, 17. November 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:46, Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 17. November 2009, mblanchard.ext@orange-ftgroup.com wrote:
> >> I tried to compile the lastest Udev 147 on a system running linux kernel
> >> 2.6.31 and glibc 2.8. This attempt failed because the SOCK_CLOEXEC
> >> constant is not defined in my glibc header /usr/include/bits/socket.h.
> >> After a small investigation, I found the following: kernel support of
> >> SOCK_CLOEXEC was introduced in the 2.6.27 release. However, the glibc
> >> support was introduced in glibc 2.9. I believe this dependency should be
> >> precised in the Udev README.
> >
> > I think udev-147 even requires kernel 2.6.29 headers, as this is the
> > first release in which bsg.h is exported.
>
> bsg was added in 2.6.23.
>
Yes, and this commit exported it to userspace, so it got installed 
below /usr/include. So 2.6.29 were the first linux-headers to contain bsg.h

commit a229fc61ef0ee3c30fd193beee0eeb87410227f1
Author: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 19 10:37:38 2009 +0100
include/linux: Add bsg.h to the Kernel exported headers


Matthias