[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/3] toolchain: workaround musl/kernel headers conflict
Baruch Siach
baruch at tkos.co.il
Wed Nov 16 16:25:20 UTC 2016
Hi Thomas,
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 04:55:57PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:45:16 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
>
> > > Baruch, could you investigate whether this musl commit fixes the header
> > > conflict problem for bridge-utils and norm?
> >
> > The commit log links to this musl commit and to a mailing list report[1] that
> > this fix is not enough on its own. As a result of this discussion Felix Janda
> > posted a kernel patch[2] to address the issue. See also Rich's response[3].
> > Even if this patch is accepted, we'll most likely have to keep this
> > workaround, or an equivalent, for as long as we support kernel headers v4.9
> > and older.
> >
> > [1] http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/11/09/2
> > [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/11/11/1
> > [3] http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/11/11/2
>
> Thanks a lot for the explanation.
>
> So I believe we should apply your proposed workaround. However, I'm not
> sure I want to take the risk of applying this to the master branch
> (even though I agree it could fix some build failures). Are you OK with
> applying it to the next branch?
Of course. This is definitely not for master.
baruch
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