Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.10.0

[Rahul Karnik]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:00:19 +0000, Andrew Walrond <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 09:42, Mariusz Mazur wrote:
> >
> > I'm a distribution vendor. If x11 really required having current kernel
> > config at compile time to function properly, I'd start sending threats to
> > its authors.

We are not talking about an application, but rather out of tree kernel
modules (or rather, different versions of modules already in the
tree).
 
> Well there is certainly stuff like
> 
>  ifdef ARCHX86
>   ifndef CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG
>    $(error CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG needs to be enabled in the kernel)
>   endif
>  endif
> 
>  and
> 
>  ifdef CONFIG_AGP
>   ifneq (,$(findstring mga,$(DRM_MODULES)))
>    CONFIG_DRM_MGA := m
>   endif
>  endif

Let's be clear here: these are not regular X11 files, but those meant
to compile kernel modules. Are you surprised that config.h is needed?

-Rahul
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