Re: [Sheflug] SuSE 7.2 kernel source

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 14 Oct 2001 9:03 pm, you wrote:

> > Depending on kernel headers from userspace is wrong.
>
> To the extent that very few applications interface with the kernel from
> userland, yes. Not wrong per se, though. "Generally unneccessary" is the
> term I would use, I think.

The edict is that only glibc may depend upon kernel headers, or the Linux 
gods will be wrath.

> > Linus builds in /home/linus somewhere AFAIK. If you want to distribute
> > idiot proof kernel patches, ship binaries.
>
> Shipping binary kernel patches? How do you propose that would work?

I meant binary kernels. Like how most distros ship standard kernels, reiser 
kernels, ext3 kernels etc.

> Distributing relative-path source patches is not rocket-science; there is
> no reason to depend on /usr/src/linux being the source tree (in FreeS/Wan's
> case, it wasn't a matter of redirecting the patch: the install script
> sets/did setup a web of symlinks which relied on /usr/src/linux :( )

Icky.
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