Re: Debian conflicts with FHS on /usr/include/{linux,asm}

[Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com>]

Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>    This path can be /usr/src/linux by default. Kernel modules should probably
>    not include /usr/include/{asm,linux} at all.
> 
> I can live with this.  But /usr/src/linux needs to be a valid default
> that works for naive users.

Ok, but let's take this back into the arena of FHS.  I hope that FHS
isn't only for naive users.  [If FHS intends that distributions cannot
support users with multiple kernels I'm going to be very disappointed.]

According to the current FHS, as soon as you have a system which can
boot two distinct kernels, the system is not FHS compliant.  This is a
bad thing, in my opinion.

Alternatively, this is saying that all the historical boot mechanisms fail
to be FHS compliant because they don't update /usr/include/{linux,asm}
to match the booted kernel.  Also not very good.

I'd like to see FHS adopt some language where a system with more than
one kernel instance can be FHS compliant.

-- 
Raul