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Hi all, |
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I'm compiling some software created for Fedora/Red Hat and discovered some of |
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the gentoo kernel-headers are broken. |
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For example ethtool.h, which uses the u32 typedef defined in asm/types.h. This |
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typedef has been disabled outside the kernel "to avoid name space clashes" which |
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I think is a Good Thing. |
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Inspired by this header I dug into sys-apps/ethtool and found this package used |
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a copy of an old ethtool.h and a ethtool_util.h which typedef'ed the missing |
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types. |
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I don't think this is a bad choice but it makes ethtool.h obsolete and still |
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broken. |
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I thought it might be better to remove the broken headers completely or fix them |
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up and/ or patch ebuild's like ethtool to use the real kernel-headers. |
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Red Hat / Fedora provide heavily modified kernel headers (glibc-kernheaders) |
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maybe we can borrow some patches from them... |
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What would be the best way to deal with these broken kernel headers? (plasmaroo?) |
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Greetings, |
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Dick |
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