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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:36:50AM -0600, Lou Langholtz wrote: > I have also attached a patch to Pavel's nbd-2.0 release nbd tools that > updates the nbd-client to work with linux 2.5 as well as 2.5.74 > (assuming the aforementioned patch 6.1 made it into 2.5.74). Handling is > switched at compile time however and uses <linux/version.h> to do the > switching. This will have problems of course if the builder doesn't pay > close attention to where there header file are coming from or tries to > run the same binary on a different kernel release. Etc. That's broken. You must make sure that a binary works with different kernels or at least make it fail gracefully. Using <linux/version.h> from userspace is absolutely not acceptable, just don't use kernel headers at all but a local copy of <linux/nbd.h>. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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