From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] i2c-tools: install devt headers to staging dir
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgyc1k4w.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fea13e44-54db-9e53-3bef-3c28caea623b@free.fr> (Julien Boibessot's message of "Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:24:09 +0200")
>>>>> "Julien" == Julien Boibessot <julien.boibessot@free.fr> writes:
>>> Does the i2c-tools version of this file add anything important on top of
>>> the Linux headers? The i2c /dev interface afaik hasn't changed in MANY
>>> years.
>> The i2c-tools version of i2c-dev.h adds a number of convenient i2c_smbus_*()
>> routines, that wrap around the I2C_SMBUS ioctl.
> These i2c_smbus_*() routines are used by some userspace I2C drivers (not
> yet in BR), that's why I sent the patch to re-install i2c-dev.h
It is quite painful to have multiple incompatible versions of the same
header file, and i2c-tools imho shouldn't overwrite kernel headers.
Have this issue been discussed with upstream?
--
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-28 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-23 14:06 [Buildroot] [PATCH] i2c-tools: install devt headers to staging dir julien.boibessot at free.fr
2016-09-23 21:18 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-09-26 20:19 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-09-24 14:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-26 8:56 ` Julien Boibessot
2016-09-26 10:21 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-09-26 20:17 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-09-27 3:57 ` Baruch Siach
2016-09-28 8:24 ` Julien Boibessot
2016-09-28 8:52 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
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