Re: [Full-Disclosure] ipfilter port to linux

[Darren Reed <avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au>]

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 :)
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> > Darren
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> 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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