From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:42:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40434BD7.9060301@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: yw1xn0711sgw.fsf@kth.se
Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Excuse my ignorance, but why can't the headers from the kernel still
> be used. They seem to be working fine here.
For current kernels, the "official" method is to have cleaned up copies
of the kernel headers shipped with glibc and placed in
/usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm. The "real" headers will often
work, but not always,
To complicate things, if you add new stuff to the kernel (new ioctl
commands, etc.) then your app needs to either link against the "real"
headers, or else duplicate the definitions.
Its kind of a mess.
In an ideal world there would be clean "userspace" headers shipped with
the kernel, and the kernel would then use those headers plus the
kernel-only stuff.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-29 18:42 [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0 Mariusz Mazur
2004-02-29 20:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-29 20:30 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-02-29 21:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-29 21:21 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-02-29 21:33 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-01 14:42 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-03-01 18:10 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-03 12:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-03-03 15:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-03-03 16:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-04 16:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-04 18:49 ` [Linuxabi] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-04 4:43 ` [Linuxabi] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-03 18:08 ` [ANNOUNCE] " Mariusz Mazur
2004-03-03 19:20 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-03-04 14:13 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-04 20:49 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-03-04 21:27 ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-04 22:52 ` Mariusz Mazur
2004-03-04 23:32 ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-05 17:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-05 23:44 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-03-06 22:30 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-07 1:15 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-07 19:00 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-08 1:28 ` Paul Jackson
2004-03-08 15:03 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-03-08 15:37 ` Chris Friesen
2004-03-08 20:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-02-29 21:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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