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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