hal 0.5.8 "The Skynet Funding Bill is passed." released

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 17:32 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've committed this patch 
> 
>  http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=025d3781e2c8fd0133934fd4c94e55d0178940c7;hp=11dbbc69c4ebc31e1113fe617f349315df5bfa1d
> 
> on both HEAD and hal-0_5_8-branch. 
> 
> IMO, it's much better to depend on kernel headers than glibc headers and
> if a distributions happen to be too lazy to package these up properly
> (or simply forgets), surely this will help them fix that bug.

Sigh, FC5 is affected, so much for that. I've committed this patch

 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=607bc736215bd2769d79877dda9327623637fb49;hp=025d3781e2c8fd0133934fd4c94e55d0178940c7

Hopefully things look better after 2.6.18.

    David