Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-(
From: Erik Andersen (andersen_at_codepoet.org)
Date: 09/30/03
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:09:08 -0600 To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
On Tue Sep 30, 2003 at 02:28:32PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Well then change that to 'if you include kernel headers from your user
> apps, be prepared to pick fix the breakage'.
>
> Surely the kernel doesn't move at such an accelerated pace that it's
> impossible to keep kernel headers uptodate.
A classic recent example is iproute, which uses kernel headers
all over the place. It compiled with earlier 2.4.x kernels, but
it no longer compiles 2.4.22. I've not bothered to try and fix
it, but if it included its own set of sanitized kernel headers,
it would not have had a problem.
-Erik
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