Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1: byteorder.h breaks with __STRICT_ANSI__ defined (trivial)

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 00:53:42 EST


   From: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
   Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 07:59:49 +0100

   On Wednesday 07 May 2003 7:45 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> That's highly broken because his libc was compiled against 2.2 headers.
> You must never use different headers in /usr/include/Pasm,linux}
> then those your libc was compiled against.
   
   I don't see why moving up should be wrong -

The headers used for 2.2.x era libc cannot cope with or conflit with
many of the constructs used by current kernel headers.

Chritoph's points are very real.
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