From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>,
schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-(
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:09:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030930190908.GC5407@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030930122832.GO2908@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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-30 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-30 11:44 Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-( Joerg Schilling
2003-09-30 11:54 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-30 12:12 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2003-09-30 12:21 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-30 12:26 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2003-09-30 12:30 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-30 12:32 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 12:40 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-30 12:39 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 12:23 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 12:28 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-30 12:34 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 12:42 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-30 19:09 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2003-10-01 8:48 ` Paul Rolland
2003-10-01 8:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-10-01 17:49 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-30 16:10 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-10-01 6:39 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-02 6:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-30 19:04 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-30 12:25 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-30 19:00 ` Erik Andersen
2003-10-01 8:47 ` Paul Rolland
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-01 1:05 Albert Cahalan
2003-09-30 13:26 Joerg Schilling
2003-09-30 12:52 Joerg Schilling
2003-09-30 12:37 Joerg Schilling
2003-09-30 13:21 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-09-30 11:57 Joerg Schilling
2003-09-30 12:06 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-30 12:28 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-30 12:38 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-30 14:41 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-10-10 6:36 ` Sandy Harris
2003-09-30 10:28 Joerg Schilling
2003-09-30 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
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