Re: [PATCH]: problem: pc_keyb.h

[Nico Schottelius <nicos@pcsystems.de>]

okay, convinced.
It wasn't possible to use gpm with 2.0 kernels
anymore, if pc_keyb.h was included.
So i copied the relevant parts to our header file

This will appear in gpm-1.19.5.

Nico

Martin Mares wrote:

> Hello!
>
> > Martin, can't you add the line I sent in the last mail ?
> > This would make it possible to include
> > pc_keyb.h into many programs directly.
>
> Please don't do that, user space programs depending on a particular version
> of kernel headers have already created a horrible mess, so outside the cases
> where you need to share a definition of some kernel<->userspace interface,
> kernel headers really shouldn't be used outside the kernel.
>
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