Bug#263348: linux-kernel-headers: asm/unaligned.h on powerpc is useless if __KERNEL__ is undefined
Hi,
At Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:39:10 +0400,
Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> > the header file used is actually asm/byteroder.h and macro is
> > _PPC_BYTEORDER_H. 1:3.6.18-2 used asm/error.h but this broke things in
> > a manner i didn't understand.
> >
> > > Looking through the kernel source, it seems lkh should be fixed. I
> > > put the patch to lkh cvs.
> >
> > good :)
> >
> > > However, now we're base-freeze period, and at least I don't decide to
> > > put new lkh package -18 into unstable and testing-proposed-updates
> > > yet, so it's good idea to put workaround fix for reiserfsprogs.
> >
> > already put, uploaded and successfully built :)
> >
> > > BTW, I think reiserfsprogs is tightly coupled with the kernel version,
> > > so I wonder it's OK to use lkh package, instead of using kernel
> > > headers which are included from the latest kernel source to
> > > reiserfsprogs.
> >
> > don't know, Hans Reiser should be able to answer this question.
>
> kernel has all its includes in the kernel source tree and does not
> use standard ones, reiserfsprogs do not take anything from
> any kernel source tree and use their own or standard includes.
> asm/unaligned.h is included from glibc-devel on my computer.
I guess "glibc-devel" in Fedora Core is RedHat .rpm package, and I
confirmed that it does not have any header files. If reiserfsprogs
uses asm/unaligned.h in FC, then it's included in "glibc-kernheaders"
package and this file is actually derived from linux kernel. In
Debian, we use "linux-kernel-headers" package that role is equivalent
to FC's glibc-kernheaders package.
I sent the patch to ppc guys to fix this problem. If they apply my
patch, the problem should be gone away.
However, I think the question is still remained: should reiserfsprogs
include some kernel version headers for each reiserfs modification
versions, instead of using system headers directly?
Regards,
-- gotom
Reply to: