How to handle lack of updated kernel headers

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 6:57 pm, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Wed Mar 15, 2006 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Pieter Hollants wrote:
> > Seeing that Mariusz Mazur definitely won't be able to provide his
> > linux-libc-headers any longer (see
> > http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/llh-announce/2006-March/0000
> >02.html), what exactly are the options to use more recent 2.6.x kernel
> > versions effectively?
>
> One thing I've been wanting to do for quite some time is to
> extract the absolute minimum set of stuff that we use kernel
> header files for (mainly ABI stuff) and incorporate that stuff
> directly into uClibc, thus completely divorcing the uClibc build
> from the kernel header files.  But I'm not likely to get to it
> for at least a little while.
>
> Meanwhile, continuing to use the existing linux-libc-headers for
> the 2.6 kernel is not going to cause any problems for quite some
> time to come....

Darn it.

I have an interest in this, but not the time...

>  -Erik

Rob
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