From: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
To: Nick Popoff <lkml@tre.bloodletting.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question regarding do_munmap
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:44:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604184407.GA63233@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <153.25.1023215073895@tre.bloodletting.com>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:24:33AM -0700, Nick Popoff wrote:
> (Generic 2.4.18 include/linux/mm.h)
> extern int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long, size_t);
>
> (RH 7.3/AC patched 2.4.18-3 include/linux/mm.h)
> extern int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long, size_t, int
> acct);
>
> My question is what is the recommended way for module developers to
> handle changes to this API so that end users don't have to edit
> makefiles to build for their particular kernel? Is there a way to
Add some tests in a ./configure script that finds out which one
is being used in the kernel headers.
> how to handle this besides grep'ing source in my installer? :-)
It's roughly similar to this though. API creep is one of the facts of
external module development on Linux, I'm afraid.
regards
john
--
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2002-06-04 18:24 Nick Popoff
2002-06-04 18:44 ` John Levon [this message]
2002-06-04 20:27 ` Alan Cox
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