On 01/15/2017 01:50 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
kernel-package is maintained by Manoj Srivastava (cc'd), not the kernel team.
Ben.
On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 22:28 +0100, Linus Lüssing wrote:
Hi Ben and others,
Recently we stumbled upon some compile errors when trying to build a backport version of the batman-adv kernel module for a 4.5 kernel [0]:
"implicit declaration of function ‘G_TC_AT’"It seems VirtualBox has stumbled over this issue, too [1].
When trying to find the cause of these errors we noticed that the headers directory created via "$ make-kpkg kernel_headers" for 4.5 kernel resulted in two differing header files with the same guard, namely __LINUX_PKT_CLS_H:
https://metameute.de/~tux/batman-adv/net-sched-issues/linux-headers-4 .5.0%2b/include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h https://metameute.de/~tux/batman-adv/net-sched-issues/linux-headers-4 .5.0%2b/include/linux/pkt_cls.h
The latter, the non-uapi version, has the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" section stripped, causing the compile issue if it is included before the uapi variant.
Removing this non-uapi version from the unpacked linux-headers .deb package manually afterwards lets a batman-adv compilation succeed again.
Daniel (CC) has helped a lot with debugging so far and he expressed the suspicion that maybe make-kpkg might install "$ make headers_install" into the wrong directory?
Just to elaborate why I think it's strange, from above link the include/linux/ directory contains the normal kernel headers we have in the source tree, and the include/uapi/linux/ the expected uapi headers. However, the post-processed uapi header files can also be found in include/linux/. For example, if there's a name collision (bpf.h as one example), then the post-processed uapi header was not installed into include/linux/ and the normal kernel header can still be seen there. If there was no naming collision like in pkt_cls.h case, then it gets installed into include/linux/ as well. That seems at least rather strange to me, unless there's a good reason for doing that which I'm not aware of.
Regards, Linus
PS: make-kpkg was invoked on a Debian Jessie (kernel-package 13.014+nmu1).