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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