[PATCH] allow the use of an alternative input.h

Doug Klima cardoe at gentoo.org
Mon Nov 26 09:49:39 PST 2007


Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Montag, 26. November 2007, Daniel Stone wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:21:58PM +0000, ext Rob Taylor wrote:
>>     
>>> Damn,just committed! FWIW, this option also sounds good to me, though
>>> places the onus more on us and means we have an 'alien' header in our
>>> repo. What do the distro guys think?
>>>       
>> I think this is the recommended solution for kernel headers.  The
>> rationale here is that you guys don't have to maintain it, and it's just
>> a published list of tables.  It's immutable once published, so you don't
>> have to keep it in sync or worry about them breaking it.  It's more or
>> less just a convenience for you.
>>     
>
> For SUSE we would prefer to use our kernel headers. No need to add a input.h 
> to the HAL repo.
>
> Danny
>   
Gentoo feels the same way.


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