Re: 2.6.4-rc1-mm1

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Feb 29 2004 - 17:32:27 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:06:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > +scsi-external-build-fix.patch
> >
> > Fix scsi.h for inclusion by userspace apps - it used to work, so...
>
> This has been rejected on linux-scsi a few times. Don't use include/scsi/
> from the kerneltree - there's alredy a /usr/include/scsi from glibc anyway,
> so the situation is even more clear thæn the general you should not include
> kernel headers thing.

hm, OK. If it works in 2.4 and doesn't work in 2.6 I'd consider that a
regression. And as the fix is so trivial, I'd consider failure to fix it
as pure dogmatism. But whatever, I'm utterly bored of this discussion.
Consider it dropped.

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