On Monday 21 November 2005 04:25, Nix wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Friday 18 November 2005 20:33, Blaisorblade wrote: > >> Btw, why hasn't maszur went to post patches to kernel headers to make > >> them includable from userspace instead of merging kernel changes into > >> his headers (which is much more work)? > > > > For the same reason the glibc guys don't ship a patch against the kernel > > headers but ship cleaned upkernel headers. It's much smaller and > > simpler, and the patch would break with every single release. Besides, > > the patch isn't what we need to build libc, the cleaned up headers are. > > It would add an unnecessary level of indirection and _never_ get merged > > into the main kernel? > > One problem is that Mariusz's linux-libc-headers work seems to have > stalled :( the last headers out there are for 2.6.12, and increasingly much > (e.g. iptables) needs to be pointed directly at the kernel headers again. > > I hope linux-libc-headers isn't dead. It looked like it was turning into > a very good aggregation point, with patches coming in from Ubuntu and RH > among others.
Hopefully he won't mind me quoting from his email on Nov 4th. Project's not dead, he's just busy with Real Life (tm): > I'm also CCing Wojtek Cieciwa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), since he's one of the > guys that need a new llh release and I should be releasing 2.6.14.0 right > about now (my world kind of collapsed a few days ago and I'm out of the > picture for don't know how long; I hope to be able to recover within a week, > but who nows how things will work out; keep me CCed though). Rob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
