Am Sonntag, den 22.08.2004, 18:49 +0200 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 18:36, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 22.08.2004, 15:15 +0200 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > > I rather ship a script in kernel-utils to turn the src.rpm into a full > > > source. > > > > Yes, that could also be done. But I think the fedora-extras solution > > will be easier for a lot of people. And could be used *if* drivers like > > the ati fglrx driver currently need parts from the source. > > actually the fglrx module is a special case. It's distribution is > lacking a few headers that it then attempts to "steal" from the kernel > source, however the proper thing to do would be to just ship these > headers with the module. These headers basically don't depend on the > kernel. I have talked to the DRM guys about this before and they seem to > feel that those headers belong to go with the driver, as opposed to be > moved to include/ and be used for building drivers against. > They mean those headers are NOT interface definitions. They are an > integral part of the code of a DRM module, and DRM internals change, and > all drivers in the kernel tree will adapt. External ones don't. *but > they don't need to*, they can just ship the files they were designed > against. Unlike most other headers, these headers do NOT define some > internal kernel binary interface. Will forward to ATI. Thanks. -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
