From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751833AbWF2AWl (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:22:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751839AbWF2AWl (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:22:41 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:4034 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751833AbWF2AWk (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:22:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT *] make headers_install From: David Woodhouse To: Ralf Baechle Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, sam@ravnborg.org, arnd@arndb.de, jbailey@ubuntu.com, Tim Yamin , Bernhard Rosenkraenzer , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Thorsten Kukuk , Clint Adams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060628234450.GB5074@linux-mips.org> References: <1151446372.6394.295.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20060628234450.GB5074@linux-mips.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:22:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1151540522.18930.16.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.1.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 00:44 +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Thanks for the time you've been pouring into this. Copying kernel > header into applications clearly didn't work too well, especially for > arch stuff (two dozen and counting ...) it was a pain and each > distribution had different sets of hacked kernel headers. The technical part wasn't very time-consuming at all. Arnd provided the basic implementation, and I just tweaked it a little to use unifdef and be a bit more selective about what we export. It's probably taken less time than it would have done to get Fedora's 'glibc-kernheaders' package into shape manually the way it always used to be done -- and it'll _certainly_ be a Godsend for future updates. The time-consuming part was chasing up those who look after similar packages in other distributions and making sure they were happy enough with the principle too -- tracking them down on IRC when they ignored my emails. The current hurdle seems to be getting Linus to take it or at least comment, now that everyone _else_ seems to be fairly much in agreement. I'm hoping we don't have to let it drag on till the Kernel Summit. -- dwmw2