Re: [PATCH] include/linux/sysctl.h needs linux/compiler.h

Kevin P. Fleming
2003-05-31T20:55:34Z

ismail (cartman) donmez wrote:

> On Saturday 31 May 2003 23:32, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>
>>See the beginning of my message... it only does so if _KERNEL_ is
>>defined. Since other header files also directly include compiler.h even
>>though they already include kernel.h, I didn't think this was an
>>unreasonable solution (i.e. they must have done it for the same reason,
>>since there are comments specifically about including compiler.h for
>>"__user").
>>
>
>
> Thats a bigger problem and should be solved like ( imho ) with higher level
> of kernel api which provides userspace apps kernel level operations.
>

Right. But until such time as that happens (even if started today that's
many months away), real world libraries need to be compiled to be used
against the new kernel.