Kernel headers git tree

Kernel headers git tree

[David Woodhouse]

At http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/kernel-headers.git
there's a git tree which contains the sanitised exported headers for all
architectures -- basically the result of 'make headers_install'.

It tracks Linus' kernel tree, by means of some evil scripts.¹

Only commits in Linus' tree which actually affect the exported result
should have an equivalent commit in the above tree, which means that any
changes which affect userspace should be clearly visible for review.

-- 
dwmw2

¹ http://david.woodhou.se/extract-khdrs-git.sh and
  http://david.woodhou.se/extract-khdrs-stage2.sh for the stout of stomach

Re: Kernel headers git tree

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 00:59 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> At http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/kernel-headers.git
> there's a git tree which contains the sanitised exported headers for all
> architectures -- basically the result of 'make headers_install'.
> 
> It tracks Linus' kernel tree, by means of some evil scripts.¹
> 
> Only commits in Linus' tree which actually affect the exported result
> should have an equivalent commit in the above tree, which means that any
> changes which affect userspace should be clearly visible for review.

It might be useful to append the commit checksum from Linus' tree to the
comments so it is easier to backtrack to the original commit.

Ian. 
-- 
Ian Campbell

Your step will soil many countries.

Re: Kernel headers git tree

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi David,

On Friday, 14. July 2006 01:59, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Only commits in Linus' tree which actually affect the exported result
> should have an equivalent commit in the above tree, which means that any
> changes which affect userspace should be clearly visible for review.

Where can I subscribe for commit messages there?

Every serious systems programmer (for Linux) will ask this question soon :-)

Maybe one of the Postmasters at vger.kernel.org can setup 
a mailing list for this.


Regards

Ingo Oeser, happy to see this project finally there

Re: Kernel headers git tree

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 20:05 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Friday, 14. July 2006 01:59, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Only commits in Linus' tree which actually affect the exported result
> > should have an equivalent commit in the above tree, which means that any
> > changes which affect userspace should be clearly visible for review.
> 
> Where can I subscribe for commit messages there?

Well, they're all derived from commits in Linus' tree. I could set up
another mailing list feed script which tracks it, but I'd like to give
it a while (until I'm happy with the export scripts) first.

-- 
dwmw2

Re: Kernel headers git tree

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi David,

On Friday, 14. July 2006 20:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Well, they're all derived from commits in Linus' tree. I could set up
> another mailing list feed script which tracks it, but I'd like to give
> it a while (until I'm happy with the export scripts) first.

Sounds good :-)


Thanks & Regards

Ingo Oeser