[oe] linux vs. linux-libc-headers?

[Graeme Gregory]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> We're using Angstrom distro at hipox machine.
> 
> For this machine we need to use kernel version 2.6.24 (selected
> by DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_hipox = "1" in linux_2.6.24.bb) because of
> some special machine/driver support.
> 
> Angstrom uses linux-libc-headers version 2.6.31.
> 
> This results in some dirty problems, e.g. the headers report the
> existence of inotify_init1 (introduced with 2.6.27) but it is not
> available in 2.6.24. :(
> 
> It seem's not to be possible to use DEFAULT_PREFERENCE_hipox in the
> linux-libc-headers recipes. So what's the right way to handle this?
> Something like PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-libc-headers_hipox = "2.6.24"
> in angstrom-2008.1.conf?

I thought glibc was supposed to gracefully fall back on missing syscalls?

Graeme