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Re: ipfilter port to linux


From: Darren Reed <avalon () caligula anu edu au>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:28:33 +1100 (Australia/ACT)

In some mail from Jeremiah Cornelius, sie said:

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 17:59, Darren Reed wrote:
Now if someone wanted
a *real* 2.7 feature to add to linux, it'd be supporting building a
kernel module without requiring /usr/src/linux to be present...but I
can hear the screams already telling me why that's such a bad idea :)

Darren

Can't you build with just the headers?  I guess that doesn't /really/ solve 
the problem that you're facing though...  Headers being VERY version 
dependent, and versioning themselves with the info from the kernel 
Makefile...

NO.  The headers in /usr/include/* CANNOT be used when building
anything to be loaded into the kernel.  This is just one part of
a much bigger problem...another being the "versioning" stuff.

Darren

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