From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262074AbTJARtY (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:49:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262118AbTJARtY (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:49:24 -0400 Received: from codepoet.org ([166.70.99.138]:48303 "EHLO mail.codepoet.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262074AbTJARtT (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:49:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:49:06 -0600 From: Erik Andersen To: Paul Rolland Cc: "'Jens Axboe'" , "'David S. Miller'" , "'Andreas Steinmetz'" , schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-( Message-ID: <20031001174906.GA12587@codepoet.org> Reply-To: andersen@codepoet.org Mail-Followup-To: Erik Andersen , Paul Rolland , 'Jens Axboe' , "'David S. Miller'" , 'Andreas Steinmetz' , schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030930190908.GC5407@codepoet.org> <022901c387f8$d35c3320$4300a8c0@witbe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <022901c387f8$d35c3320$4300a8c0@witbe> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19-rmk7, Rebel-NetWinder(Intel StrongARM 110 rev 3), 185.95 BogoMips X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--