svn commit: r335916 - head/sys/conf

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, 4:14 PM Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:

> 07.07.2018 22:02, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> > One thing that was tangentially brought up is that the ability
> > to compile out-of-tree modules requires keeping the kernel-headers
> > around.  So we may need to identify all the headers that a module might
> > need, and install them in /boot/$KERNEL/sys or some-such.  This would
> > be needed if, for example, we wanted to install a new Nvidia or Virtual
> > Box module and have it work for older installed kernel versions too
> > (eg, across ABI breaking changes in -current).
>
> We already have all headers in /usr/include, don't we?
>

Not really. We have a subset of the kernel headers that might not match the
running kernel, nor be enough to build modules.

Warner

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