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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:37:29
Message-Id: 200702171235.14904.vapier@gentoo.org
1 now that the 2.6 headers have entered a sane state and are *quite* nice to
2 work with, i have no inclination whatsoever to touch unsanitized headers
3 (keep your puns to yourself :p)
4
5 so here's the question i pose: what to do ?
6
7 people file bug reports saying "package FOO fails to build with linux-2.4.xx
8 headers" ... my answer is "well, that sucks, but package FOO is not going to
9 be changed as it builds correctly with sanitized linux-2.6.xx headers"
10
11 do we want to try and maintain our own sanitized 2.4 headers ? this would
12 require our own git tree as trying to do development on a patch-based setup
13 is an exercise in insanity ...
14
15 or perhaps we want to unmask the sanitized 2.6 headers for use on a 2.4
16 profile ? the core ramifications: beneficial actually; we tell glibc what
17 the min kernel version it needs to run on (2.4.1 currently), and it will
18 enable all features required between that and whatever kernel version your
19 headers are ... so if you were to upgrade your kernel, glibc would
20 automatically take advantage of the newer system calls
21 -mike

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] the destiny of the 2.4 headers Daniel Robbins <drobbins.daniel@×××××.com>