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From: "Mohammad A. Haque" <mhaque@haque.net>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: linux-2.4.0-test12pre8/include/linux/module.h breaks sysklogd  compilation
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:13:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A357BC4.AC568471@haque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001211145901.A8047@baldur.yggdrasil.com>

Wasn't there discussion that user space apps shouldn't include kernel
headers?

"Adam J. Richter" wrote:
> 
>         linux-2.4.0test12pre8/include/linux/module.h contains some
> kernel-specific declarations that now reference struct list_head, which
> which is only defined when __KERNEL__ is set.  This causes sysklogd
> and probably any other user level program that needs to include
> <linux/module.h> to fail to compile.
> 
>         The following patch brackets the (unused) offending declarations
> in #ifdef __KERNEL__...#endif.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-12  1:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-11 22:59 PATCH: linux-2.4.0-test12pre8/include/linux/module.h breaks sysklogd compilation Adam J. Richter
2000-12-12  1:05 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-12  1:15   ` Cort Dougan
2000-12-12  1:13 ` Mohammad A. Haque [this message]
2000-12-12  1:53   ` Peter Samuelson
2000-12-12 20:38     ` Frank van Maarseveen

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