From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Walrond Subject: Re: 2.6.28 headers break kbd and net-tools userspace builds Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:13:11 +0000 Message-ID: <498761E7.3080006@walrond.org> References: <20090128.122924.106238702.davem@davemloft.net> <4986CC6D.4090904@walrond.org> <20090202.120507.152093960.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jengelh@medozas.de, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from marvin.heresymail.org ([87.106.62.5]:57523 "EHLO marvin.heresymail.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753579AbZBBVNR (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 16:13:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090202.120507.152093960.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: > > There isn't anything we can really do about these cases. > > No matter what we do, we break the userland build in one way or > another. > What exactly is the purpose of the kernel headers? Are there some definitions in the kernel headers that will never be available from glibc? Is it perhaps possible to work towards exporting kernel headers for the sole purpose of building glibc, and all other packages should be able to build against glibc's headers? Andrew Walrond