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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:51:25AM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there's a set of sanitized linux 2.6 headers at [1].
> They replaced quite some kernel internal stuff by the corresponding libc
> header to make them more usable. The mail to the lkml [2] says they were
> used to compile a whole distribution.
> 
> I think it could be a good idea to use those headers and join efforts of
> fixing them instead of maintaining our own set of fixed headers.
> A changed glibc-kernel-headers spell that uses them is attached, so far
> i've rebuilt e2fsprogs, ffmpeg and avifile without applying the 2.6
> fixes in those spells. util-linux and sysklogd still need to be patched
> by using either our or their [3] patches.
> 
> [1] http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/glibc-kernel-headers/
> [2] http://www.google.com/groups?selm=1he4z-7VG-9%40gated-at.bofh.it
> [3] http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/glibc-kernel-headers/patches/

Two failures that also fail with our headers, but in a different way:
dosfstools and lvm

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