Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 18:08 +0100, Antoine Martin wrote: > >> Jeff Dike wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:23:25AM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I don't mind bugging people to get to the bottom of this, do you know >>>> where to knock? >>>> I can't find anything in MAINTAINERS. >>>> >>>> >>> Did you install the headers directly from a kernel tree, or is this >>> the result of a distro upgrade? >>> >>> >> These are the Gentoo packages which are very close to mainline and I >> can't find the upstream location for the headers so I guess I will be >> filing a bug with Gentoo... We'll see where that leads. >> >> > > Actually, the Gentoo headers are not particularly close to the kernel > headers. My mistake. > They are heavily "sanitized", meaning that all kinds of things > that userspace is "not supposed to use" are removed. So in a sense, Gentoo kernel headers are ahead of the game. Which means that these changes are likely to become an issue not just for Gentoo users in the future.
> This makes it very > hard for things like UML, that are heavily tied to the kernel, to build. > As Jeff pointed out, this is part of the userspace api: "the elimination of user.h makes it impossible to use PTRACE_SETFP[X]REGS, as there is no way to tell what size buffer should be passed in." Can you suggest a way to code around this issue or is this going to require an update to the Gentoo kernel headers? Let me know if I can help. Thanks Antoine ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
