Hi Guenther,
Sorry for the brevity I'll provide a little more detail.
Slackware ships with a choice of two kernels 2.4.33.3 or 2.6.17.13.
With 2.4.33.3 the headers are installed as part of the setup process.
If the 2.6.17.13 kernel is chosen however, the headers need to be
installed as a separate action after the setup has completed. So with
this in mind, the user needs to be mindful to have installed the latest
kernel headers (or symlink or whatever) to get hal to compile.
However, there may be plenty of installs that don't grab the new headers
so the patch is needed, and against the hal version included in
2.17.latest it fails. Granted, those who choose Slack as a distro are
probably more experienced than most IMHO (no flames please...) and will
take the necessary steps to fix the issue, but the lowest common
denominator should also be catered for..
Yiannis
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 00:41 +0100, guenther wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 17:16 +0000, Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 09:47 +0000, Peter wrote:
>
> > > Patch is not required running slack 11.
>
> > Only if the 2.6.x headers have been added, after the end of the
> > installation and many may not be inclined to do so :)
>
> Not sure if I can follow you here. :) In which cases is this patch
> still necessary, if any? When would it not be necessary, what needs to
> be done, and what impact does this have?
>
> Since neither Joseph nor me got any Slackware system, we need your guys
> help and opinion. We sure prefer not to ship any distro-specific hack,
> if possible. Worse, shipping a broken patch...
>
>
> Any opinion welcome, discussion much appreciated. ;) Thanks...
>
> guenther
>
>
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