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From: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/10] toolchain/external: add choice to select 'AT_LEAST_XXX' header version
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:32:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXf6LVfv7WWYMykb_FC_BRJxkNxabOJRTPxh-m+vuJSH6rG=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140217113023.7e5a0845@skate>

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Thomas De Schampheleire,
>
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:07:29 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
>
>> > I'm not sure I entirely grok your comment. This choice is only visible
>> > for external toolchains, not for the internal backend, so there is not
>> > two choices to set the kernel headers version.
>>
>> True, but suppose the user did make the externel toolchain himself,
>> for example with crosstool-ng. While creating the toolchain, he did
>> get the question of which headers to use already, so he/she may think
>> 'Huh? Why do I have to choose it again, and what will happen if I
>> select a newer version here?"
>
> This is something we already have for C++, large file, RPC, IPv6 and so
> on. We have a typical help text for this:
>
>           Select this option if your external toolchain has thread
>           support. If you don't know, leave the default value,
>           Buildroot will tell you if it's correct or not.
>
>> Maybe you could also add that if the user is unsure about the exact
>> version, it's 'safer' to specify an older version than a newer one.
>> And maybe a way of determining the header version used in a toolchain,
>> in case the user does not know it.
>
> We should simply have a check that ensures the selection is correct.
>

This was probably answered before, but if we can detect that the
selection is incorrect, why don't we set the right value
automatically?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-17 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-16 17:27 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/10] Add dependency on kernel headers Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/10] toolchain/common: add minimum kernel headers options Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-17 22:33   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 02/10] manual: document minimal kernel headers dependency Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:41   ` Samuel Martin
2014-02-16 17:52     ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 20:03   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-02-16 20:42     ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 20:45       ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-02-16 20:55         ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 03/10] package/linux-headers: select appropriate 'AT_LEAST_XXX' header version Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-17 22:41   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-20 18:16     ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-20 20:17       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-20 21:06         ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-02-20 21:11           ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 04/10] toolchain/external: add choice to select " Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 20:08   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-02-16 20:47     ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-17  8:07       ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2014-02-17 10:30         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-17 10:32           ` Thomas De Schampheleire [this message]
2014-02-17 10:44             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-17 18:04           ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-17 22:49             ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-02-17 23:10               ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-17 18:02         ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-17 22:45     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-17 23:00       ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-17 23:14         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 05/10] " Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-17 22:47   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 06/10] package/dvb-apps: requires kernel headers >= 3.3 Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-17 22:51   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-02-17 23:24     ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 07/10] package/w_scan: requires kernel headers >= 3.0 Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 08/10] package/weston: " Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 09/10] package/tvheadend: requires kernel headers >= 3.2 Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:27 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 10/10] package/mmc-utils: requires kernel headers >= 3.0 Yann E. MORIN
2014-02-16 17:36 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/10] Add dependency on kernel headers Yann E. MORIN

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