[gentoo-dev] broken kernel headers

[gentoo-dev] broken kernel headers

[Dick]

Hi all,

I'm compiling some software created for Fedora/Red Hat and discovered some of
the gentoo kernel-headers are broken.

For example ethtool.h, which uses the u32 typedef defined in asm/types.h. This
typedef has been disabled outside the kernel "to avoid name space clashes" which
I think is a Good Thing.

Inspired by this header I dug into sys-apps/ethtool and found this package used
a copy of an old ethtool.h and a ethtool_util.h which typedef'ed the missing
types.
I don't think this is a bad choice but it makes ethtool.h obsolete and still
broken.

I thought it might be better to remove the broken headers completely or fix them
up and/ or patch ebuild's like ethtool to use the real kernel-headers.

Red Hat / Fedora provide heavily modified kernel headers (glibc-kernheaders)
maybe we can borrow some patches from them...

What would be the best way to deal with these broken kernel headers? (plasmaroo?)

Greetings,
Dick

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Re: [gentoo-dev] broken kernel headers

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:25, Dick wrote:
> For example ethtool.h, which uses the u32 typedef defined in asm/types.h.
> This typedef has been disabled outside the kernel "to avoid name space
> clashes" which I think is a Good Thing.

that's because the sed used in kernel-2.eclass is slightly broken ... it 
should have been changed to '__u32'

> What would be the best way to deal with these broken kernel headers?

file a bug of course
-mike
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