Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-(

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:48, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > 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.
> 
> And if some IOCTLs were changed in between, in the kernel and
> kernel headers ? 
this is absolutely not allowed to happen. It's not allowed to break the
userspace ABI like this!

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