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 ;)

Andreas Mohr

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