Re: iproute2 and kernel headers

On wtorek 03 sierpień 2004 17:31, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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I am willing to put some headers (not all) in with the user level
code, provided they are copies since they I can easily update. I don't
want to get into keeping an edited set of headers in sync.

 Aren't linux-libc-headers (*) sufficient?

* - http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/

The theory of that is good, but in practice it would make the problem
worse. What iproute2 wants is to have the same kernel data structures as
the latest kernel. It is awkward enough making sure to get them from the
correct kernel sources, but doing it from a different package would make
updating and keeping everything current worse.

This message was forwarded to me (I'm the llh maintainer). Llh is being 
updated by generating a diff between incremental kernel releases, fixing that 
diff and applying it to the last version of llh. I do have scripts to check 
wether such an update doesn't break any headers. There is a slight 
possibility that such an update might omit some crucial changes, but (at 
least when it comes to network headers) co-developers of my distribution 
(PLD) will most likely detect that allmost instantly and notify me what's 
wrong (in such a case I will release a fixed version of llh asap).

Since removing all those glibc/linux-headers workarounds from 
iproute2/iptables was quite a pain for me I would really like to see building 
against llh at least as an option available from 'configure'.
(In case you're wondering - yes, we've been building all the linux network 
userland stuff against llh for about 8 months now without any problems... 
quite the opposite actually)


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