On 12/24/2010 7:47 AM, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 07:27:01AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On 12/24/2010 7:18 AM, Török Edwin wrote:
>>> Maybe you could add -I/lib/modules/`uname -r`/source to CPPFLAGS, so if
>>> the user has something more recent installed it gets picked up?
>>> Or could you just copy that header from latest stable kernel to powertop?
>> I could copy, but it's not like powertop will actually run if the kernel
>> doesn't support these interfaces
>> (or many others for that matter, a 2.6.32 kernel will just not work.
>> 2.6.36 ought to work fine though)
> The irony of it is that this machine _is_ running a much newer
> custom kernel (only 2.6.34.x though, I believe, due to 2.6.35+
> being questionable at the time I did the last upgrade).
> It's just that the Debian stable common kernel headers are much older.
>
>> I'll take a look and see if there's something sane I can do that also
>> makes sense ;)
> Hmm, the question would be what would constitute Accepted Best Practice (tm)
> in this area ;)

taking a copy sucks since at that point PowerTOP becomes disconnected 
from bugfixes etc in the original
but not taking a copy sucks too for all the things you and Torok have 
been finding ;-(
(I'm not going to point to the kernel source directory; those are kernel 
mode headers that get cleaned up before installation into /usr/include, 
I don't want to deal with the raw headers, nor are apps supposed to be 
able to)


no-win situation.

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