Re: [Glibc-bsd-commits] r1529 - in trunk/kfreebsd-kernel-headers/debian: . patches
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:43:16AM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
>
> > Are you sure this is safe?
> > The patch looks weird, but I'm sure there was some reason to add it.
>
> Yes, there was. It gone with commit r1525. As a consequence, new glibc
> should Build-depend on newer version of kfreebsd-kernel-headers.
> Ioctl definition should be definitely provided by kernel, not by glibc.
>
> RFC:
>
> Could we create include subdir kbits (provided by kfreebsd-kernel-headers),
> which will contain some files from sys dir of kernel, which are overrided by glibc ?
> It would allow include original kernel files in other places instead of
> simply copying them into glibc bits.
Linux has <linux/*>. Maybe we should have <kfreebsd/*> ?
I don't know. But I think it'd be a good idea to discuss it with (glibc)
upstream or something.
--
Robert Millan
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