Kernel headers changes in F10?
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Mon Jun 2 17:13:27 UTC 2008
John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:33:45AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:59 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> There seem to be a number of changes in the 2.6.26 kernel headers causing
>>> compile breakage (and/or in the new glibc), I've had to fix both of:
>>>
>>> svgalib, really fixed
>>>
>>> gkrellm-wifi, conflict between <net/if.h> and <linux/wireless.h>, worked
>>> around by no longer including <net/if.h>
>> I always like solutions which involve "include fewer kernel headers",
>> but we should probably investigate that in case there is some need for
>> someone to include both. John?
>
> Almost certainly because of this commit:
>
> commit 2218228392080f0ca2fc2974604e79f57b12c436
> Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at shutemov.name>
> Date: Tue Apr 22 16:38:55 2008 +0300
>
> Make linux/wireless.h be able to compile
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at shutemov.name>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
>
> I may have let this slip by due to the "able to compile" bit --
> should I not have merged it? I don't have a record or recollection
> of what motivated the patch originally.
>
Erm,
I'm no git guru, can you tranlate this:
commit 2218228392080f0ca2fc2974604e79f57b12c436
Into an url showing the diff for me, then I can take try to take a guess at
what this is trying to fix, and how this might be done without conflicting with
net/if.h
Thanks,
Hans
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