[oe] [RFC] scsi headers, in glibc-dev or linux-libc-headers-dev?

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 21:01 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> On 27-04-10 20:21, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:14 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> >> Hi,
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> >> Currently conflicting headers are both in glibc-dev and
> >> linux-libc-headers-dev, which isn't a good thing. According to the
> >> interwebs we should use the linux-libc-headers version.
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> >> Anyone opposed to removing the scsi headers from glibc? It would
> >> basically involve reverting
> >> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=b8bb2a62b3916470c752bd79d31322b4358fc676
> >> and
> >> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=83f41716ab6a2a9d83d4ff044dcef00595ecfeb2
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> > So, I did both of those after checking the interwebs and poking some
> > kernel folks (see comments in
> > http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4262 ).  The question is,
> > did the kernel folks change their mind again
> 
> I would guess so, since l-l-h 2.6.32 still has the headers....

So,
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=include/scsi/Kbuild;h=b3a0ee6b2f1c8bcefec4a219454b824538cc32cf;hb=bc113f151a73cb2195c2fb40d7d70acf8e2f9208 shows that they came back in with 2.6.31.

> > and we need to either drop
> > older linux-libc-headers (which I'll just assume is a no-go) or go back
> > to removing them in new enough linux-libc-headers.
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> I have no real preference, but removing them from l-l-h would be the
> easiest option. My immediate problem is that I need to be able to
> install both glibc-dev and l-l-h-dev on the target to show off native
> qt4 compilation.

Checking with the kernel folks I know again and found that yeah, ugg.
Debian currently removes the files from the kernel (which is what we
should do) and I'm going to submit a patch for the kernel and see what
happens.

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Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
Mentor Graphics Corporation