Re: DVB Include files

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:43:23PM +0200, Marcus Metzler wrote:
>  > In that case yes, you are screwed.  Your ABI just changed incompatibly.
> 
> Not if you recompile.

If you need to recompile your ABI changed.  And yes, then your absolutely
screwed.

>  > No!  <linux/*.h> is the namesapce for kernelheaders.  Currently they're
>  > still in the the user includes, too (due to legacy reasons).  The
>  > DVD API must move to a directory outside <linux/dvb>.
>  > 
> 
> Why (It's DVB by the way)? It's as close to the kernel as ls or cat
> and having two sets of the same includes is stupid. 

No, it's not.  One if for the driver you compile and one for the application.

>  > If you userland packages add headers to /usr/include/linux/ they
>  > are totally bogus.
>  > 
> 

> What packages? You are always talking about packages. There are no packages.
> There are only the kernel and my app. Nothing else. No copying of headers.

Then you need to add a package with the userland header (which, as I already
said might be exactly the same ones as those in the kernel tree).

>  > And that's wrong.  You must always compile against the kernel headers
>  > that your libc was compiled against.
>  > 
> 
> There is no one who does that, not even distributions. The includes
> needed for libc are far less prone to change than v4l or dvb. And not
> as linux specific.

Oh yes, everyone does.  Ever looked at an errata kernel from RH, SuSE
or Debian?  Yes, they never change what's /usr/include/.

> I see your point, but right now it's only academic and not practicable.

It's how Linux works.  If you don't like that play with SCO Unix or MacOS.