Re: DVB Include files

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:50:36 +0100


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:30:38PM +0200, Marcus Metzler wrote:
> Well, then you are wrong. You need those headers for user space
> applications and also for the kernel. The define the communication
> structures. If you put them into /usr/include you always risk having
> different versions of those structures.

If the structures change incompatibly you're fucked anyway. Better
have a copy in /usr/include that you can upgrade without updating libc
also, that way you can at least get the new structures / defines in time.

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