Re: [uml-devel] missing asm/user.h

[Daniel G. <da...@ge...>]

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 21:27 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 03:33:56PM -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > In their infinite wisdom, the Gentoo kernel team has decided to not ship
> > asm/user.h with the kernel headers package anymore.  Since UML (even, as
> > far as I can tell, in the most recent versions) uses this in several
> > places, is there a way around this?  Are there plans to remove this
> > need, or to use the ones from the UML kernel tree, or something?
> 
> This came up on IRC a week or so ago, but the conclusion then was that
> this was a botch on their part since other distro headers still
> included it, and became unusable as a result.
> 
> BTW, several of the occurrences are in kernelspace files, which aren't
> affected by distro libc burps.

These, of course, should be fine.

> I have a patch ready in case this is for real, attached below.  It
> takes care of the i386 side of things - there's an x86_64 include
> which I ignored for now.

Thanks for the patch.  I'll try it out.

> Do you believe that this is going to be permanent, or just a gyration
> in the Gentoo kernel package?

They are adamant that this is the correct thing to do and the headers
won't be going back in.  This means I'll have to work around the problem
in the UML package.  Hopefully, your patch will be enough.

Daniel