Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-(

Erik Andersen
2003-10-01T17:49:24Z

On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 10:48:45AM +0200, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > 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.
>
> And if some IOCTLs were changed in between, in the kernel and
> kernel headers ?
> You end up with an application that you can compile, but doesn't
> behave as expected ? What a progress :-(

People who change ioctl numbers needs their kneecaps broken.
Regardless, I didn't say I liked the current situation. I
just said that is the current officially sanctioned method
of dealing with it,

-Erik

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