Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.10.0

[Randy.Dunlap]

Mariusz Mazur wrote:
> Available at http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/
> Changes:
> - updated to 2.6.10
> - switched to using svn and now ChangeLog is back :)
> - some minor changes here and there (made some headers ansi C compatible)
>
>
> Two weeks after 2.6.10, but you can blame Linus for releasing 2.6.10 just 
> before Christmas.
>
> Like I've said two months ago - my scripts for testing new versions now do 
> separate asm-i386-ansi and asm-i386-noansi checks, so any ansi degradation in 
> linux or asm-i386 (like the one from 2.6.9) won't go unnoticed.
>
> One more thing - llh is now officially one year old (first commits are from 
> December 2003). That's a long time for any hack to live. Especially a hack 
> this big and one that even has a couple of vendor specific variants. A couple 
> of discussions took place concerning this matter (in the last one Linus even 
> said, that he'll be accepting patches) and still I see no movement. I'd 
> really like to see glibc guys figuring out a way not to duplicate definitions 
> and structures from linux and starting to submit patches. That'd be a really 
> good (and much needed - glibc's and linux' headers conflict in lots of ugly 
> ways) first step.
> Anybody?

Yes, please don't give up.  I'll try to help soon (not that I'm
a glibc guy).

> Happy New Year.

Ditto.

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~Randy
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