10.6. Linux-Headers-2.6.17.11-08232006

The Linux Headers package contains the “sanitized” kernel headers.

10.6.1. Installation of Linux Headers

For years it has been common practice to use “raw” kernel headers (straight from a kernel tarball) in /usr/include, but over the last few years, the kernel developers have taken a strong stance that this should not be done. This gave birth to the Linux-Libc-Headers Project, which was designed to maintain an API stable version of the Linux headers. Recently this project stopped producing updates, so the Cross-LFS team started development on our own project to sanitize the headers.

Install the header files that are common to all architectures:

install -dv /usr/include/{asm,asm-generic,linux,mtd,scsi,sound}
cp -av include/asm-generic/* /usr/include/asm-generic
cp -av include/linux/* /usr/include/linux
cp -av include/mtd/* /usr/include/mtd
cp -av include/scsi/* /usr/include/scsi
cp -av include/sound/* /usr/include/sound

Install the header files that are specific to this architecture:

cp -av include/asm-alpha/* /usr/include/asm

10.6.2. Contents of Linux-Headers

Installed headers: /usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h

Short Descriptions

/usr/include/{asm,linux}/*.h

The Linux API headers