[PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: Copy header files for various kernel media driver

Ike Panhc ike.pan at canonical.com
Wed Mar 25 14:56:17 UTC 2009


Tim Gardner wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> I did have a look at the ramifications of including all .h files in the
>> headers packages.  Basically it added about 60MB to the image, ie near to
>> doubling it.  If that isn't a mental ammount we might consider including
>> all of them.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -apw
>>
> 
> I'm not particularly keen on the idea of adding a zillion unnecessary
> header files to the package. Nearly all of the .h files that are _not_
> under include tend to be for internal private use by their specific
> device drivers, media header files notwithstanding (but that's a
> different issue).
> 
> Anyway, I'm still waiting for the pull request from Ike.
> 
> rtg

# du -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/*
5476	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/arch
16	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/block
40	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/crypto
196	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/Documentation
4544	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/drivers
16	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/firmware
680	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/fs
28348	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/include
40	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/init
8	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/ipc
4	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/Kbuild
80	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/kernel
76	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/lib
60	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/Makefile
16	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/mm
768	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/net
36	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/samples
1488	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/scripts
72	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/security
816	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/sound
496	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/ubuntu
12	/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11/usr

Do we need the Kbuild and Makefile in linux-headers?
I think there is something we can remove.
I will check for that.

-- Ike Panhc




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