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

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:21:58PM +0000, ext Rob Taylor wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:43:49AM +0000, ext Rob Taylor wrote:
> >> That patch is useful for building the latest HAL on systems where you
> >> don't necessarily have the latest kernel headers installed. It obviously
> >> isn't strictly necessary (passing appropriate CFLAGS to configure would
> >> do) but a nice feature, I think.
> > 
> > Why not just distribute an input.h that has all the definitions you use,
> > with an option to use the system one?
> 
> 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.

Cheers,
Daniel
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