Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1: byteorder.h breaks with __STRICT_ANSI__

[David S. Miller]

   From: Thomas Horsten <[e-mail]>
   Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 07:59:49 +0100

   On Wednesday 07 May 2003 7:45 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
   > That's highly broken because his libc was compiled against 2.2 headers.
   > You must never use different headers in /usr/include/Pasm,linux}
   > then those your libc was compiled against.
   
   I don't see why moving up should be wrong -

The headers used for 2.2.x era libc cannot cope with or conflit with
many of the constructs used by current kernel headers.

Chritoph's points are very real.