I do not use linux-headers-2.6.x on my Qube2, but iptables still b0rked
on anything higher then 1.2.11-r3.
If I am correct then mips-headers is the equivelant of linux-headers? In
that case I have 2.4.21-r3.
My Qube2 acts as my firewall and so I have tried several versions the
first time I installed it.
At that time iptables wasn't marked stable on mips.
Kumba wrote:
Jim Gifford wrote:
I just don't understand why iptables needs that file at all, I can't
find anything in it that uses it. I'm going to search again, and I
will post my results once I figure it out.
iptables doesn't need it. It's one of those funky #include chains.
include A includes B which includes C which includes Q and so on until
it tries including a file it can't find. This is because there are a
series of mach-* machine subdirs in include/asm-mips that each contain
headers specific to a particular machine type (like spaces.h, among
other things). I haven't delved into the specifics (someone else here
can explain it more), but when the kernel builds, based upon the
configuration of the kernel, it knows which include/asm-mips/mach-*
directory to look in to snag the headers it needs. Userland doesn't
know this, so for headers used in userland, you need to patch things
abit. Otherwise, they break.
http://tinyurl.com/5grah <-- appCompat patch used in Gentoo's
linux-headers 2.6.10 ebuild. It lacks mips-specific bits, but you can
look at how x86 handles some of its include/asm-i386/mach-* sections
for how we're working around these issues. It's all a hack really,
until someone either fixes userland to never use kernel headers, or
the kernel-side finds a way to create userland-friendly headers (but I
don't see any of this happening anytime soon).
--Kumba
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