From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261704AbTJAI4e (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 04:56:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261761AbTJAI4e (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 04:56:34 -0400 Received: from node-d-1ea6.a2000.nl ([62.195.30.166]:26607 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261704AbTJAI4d (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 04:56:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-( From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Paul Rolland Cc: andersen@codepoet.org, "'Jens Axboe'" , "'David S. Miller'" , "'Andreas Steinmetz'" , schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <022901c387f8$d35c3320$4300a8c0@witbe> References: <022901c387f8$d35c3320$4300a8c0@witbe> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-8mzaYPW0wdCsrU7HOw4U" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1064998553.5182.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-7) Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:55:54 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-8mzaYPW0wdCsrU7HOw4U Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:48, Paul Rolland wrote: > Hello, >=20 > > 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. >=20 > And if some IOCTLs were changed in between, in the kernel and > kernel headers ?=20 this is absolutely not allowed to happen. It's not allowed to break the userspace ABI like this! --=-8mzaYPW0wdCsrU7HOw4U Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/epaZxULwo51rQBIRAt2mAJ4/Ija1AzBoqr+Dk065ip8rLXSWswCgpO13 h7VGdRMA3jDCB02Os743OnU= =rnTK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-8mzaYPW0wdCsrU7HOw4U--