From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265456AbTFZIKi (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 04:10:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265458AbTFZIKi (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 04:10:38 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([195.224.96.167]:51725 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265456AbTFZIKh (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 04:10:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:24:44 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Michael Hunold Cc: Alan Cox , J?rn Engel , Marcus Metzler , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Johannes Stezenbach Subject: Re: DVB Include files Message-ID: <20030626092444.A26890@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Michael Hunold , Alan Cox , J?rn Engel , Marcus Metzler , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Johannes Stezenbach References: <16121.56382.444838.485646@sheridan.metzler> <20030625185036.C29537@infradead.org> <16121.58735.59911.813354@sheridan.metzler> <20030625191532.A1083@infradead.org> <16121.60747.537424.961385@sheridan.metzler> <20030625194250.GF1770@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <16122.379.321217.737557@sheridan.metzler> <20030625202312.GG1770@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1056582481.1998.20.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <3EFAAC69.6090709@convergence.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3EFAAC69.6090709@convergence.de>; from hunold@convergence.de on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:18:49AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:18:49AM +0200, Michael Hunold wrote: > In include/linux/dvb we have the headers that are shared between user > applications and the kernel driver. As I said above, these are stable and > never change for the v3 api. In an ideal world, these header files would > be included in your glibc distribution at /usr/include/linux/dvb > Currently, you must copy them by hand or create a symlink, because there > hasn't been an official kernel with the dvb driver subsystem yet. And that's the whole point. In fact I hear exactly that problem from a friend at SuSE who maintained an (inofficial?) dvb package. He packaged the kernel driver but of course it's not part of the official SuSE kernel and even more so the kernel headers package that is created with the kernel package but doesn't change during the lifetime of the glibc package. Now he's not allowed to just write into /usr/include/linux/ either because that directory is owned by the kernel headers package. Please just get over it and put a copy of the headers into /usr/include/dvb, this makes life easier for everyone.