[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] kernel-headers: linux kernel headers

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Josh Cartwright <joshc at ni.com> wrote:
> Hey Bruce-
>
> (Just dug this up because it was relevant to a conversation in the
> office.)
>
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:20:11PM -0300, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Juro Bystricky <juro.bystricky at intel.com> wrote:
>> > Header files and scripts for building modules for Linux kernel.
>> >
>> > A set of files is needed to allow building new Linux kernel modules
>> > against an already installed Linux kernel. The files include various
>> > header files, script files, Makefiles, source code files for several
>> > utility programs and Linux kerenl .config file.
>>
>> We already have our kernel devsrc packages. This is simply creating more
>> copies of the same functionality.
>
> The kernel-devsrc package contains much more than is explicitly required
> just to build external kernel modules (a full kernel source tree isn't
> required), and the kernel-dev package doesn't install enough.  Right
> now, there is no "just enough".
>
>> If you have issues with devsrc .. why aren't you fixing it ? It certainly
>> shouldn't be left as is, while introducing something new.
>
> I would expect this -headers package to contain a subset of what -devsrc
> is currently installing; might an option be to make the -devsrc package
> depend on this -headers package?

That's the rough plan. I'm looking into changing things this week, since I
was catching up on backlog all last week.

Bruce

>
>   Josh



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