[OE-core] recipes-kernel/linux-libc-headers/linux-libc-headers.inc question

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 3:07 PM Niko Mauno <niko.mauno at vaisala.com> wrote:
>
> https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=eb24d4aeacaad9d41ddcbefd8d2ac96e95548183
> apparently is needed for 4.15, but it breaks with 4.14 as we get
>
>   ERROR: linux-libc-headers-4.14-r0 do_install: oe_multilib_header:
>   Unable to find header asm/bpf_perf_event.h.
>
> I used following to work this around in our own linux-libc-headers_4.14.bb:
>
>   do_install_armmultilib_prepend() {
>       touch ${D}${includedir}/asm/bpf_perf_event.h
>   }
>
> but curious if somebody could suggest a better mitigation
>

We do not encourage to fork off linux uapi package ( linux-libc-headers)
so changes in .inc files may become incompatible with other versions more
often than not.

Your fix if it works for you might be ok to carry in your layer.


> -Niko
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