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From: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
To: DervishD <raul@viadomus.com>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why 'linux/fs.h' cannot be included? I *can*...
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:12:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020130111233.A21325@havoc.gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16VtWb-0002kV-00@DervishD.viadomus.com>
In-Reply-To: <E16VtWb-0002kV-00@DervishD.viadomus.com>; from raul@viadomus.com on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:07:37PM +0100

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 01:07:37PM +0100, DervishD wrote:
>     The problem is that I don't want to copy the definitions I need
> from linux/fs.h, because this will lead to problems if those
> definitions change. Anyway this is not an issue, because by changing
> the running kernel those definitions in fact may not be valid...
> 
>     Resuming: I don't know how properly address this problem.

Go ahead and copy.  If ioctl interfaces change, then binary
compatibility just changed too.  By nature that will be changed
infrequently, if at all.

	Jeff





  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-30 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-30 12:07 DervishD
2002-01-30 14:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-30 16:12 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1012391761.28301.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-01-30 18:24 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-01-30 23:33   ` Keith Owens
2002-01-31  1:17     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-31  1:51       ` Keith Owens
2002-01-31  1:57         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-31  2:06           ` Keith Owens
2002-01-31  2:35             ` Jeff Garzik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-29 10:20 DervishD
2002-01-29 14:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-29 14:51   ` Alan Cox
2002-01-29 14:42     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-28 19:31 DervishD
2002-01-28 19:44 ` Eric W. Biederman

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