Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:09:08 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-( |
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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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