[oe] [PATCH v3 1/3] libsocketcan: new recipes

[Vitus Jensen]

On Fri, 21 May 2010, Khem Raj wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Vitus Jensen <vjensen at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Build pengutronix' libsocketcan (netlink interface), used
>> by newer versions of canutils.  can_netlink.h is really
>> linux/can/netlink.h from linux-libc-headers but installed
>> here to be independ of staged linux-libc-headers versions.
>
> is there any reason to have an encapsulated copy of this header
> besides being independent ?

It's just that reason.  can is pretty new in linux and the netlink 
interface even newer.

libsocketcan 0.0.8 needs headers from 2.6.34
libsocketcan 0.0.7 2.6.33, 2.6.32 or 2.6.31

Combine that with the thread about linux-libc-headers and that selecting 
the version of llh is a distro-thing I think it's best to provide 
the needed can_netlink.h version.  The canutils source handles version 
incompatibilities.

Vitus

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