Bug 18931

Summary:	Kernel 2.2.16 included, but headers for 2.4.0
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John William <jw2357>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	daliang.wen
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Description John William 2000-10-12 05:10:44 UTC

The standard install uses kernel 2.2.16, but kernel headers for 2.4.0. 
This makes it difficult (impossible?) to compile some modules since you're 
compiling for a 2.2.x kernel, but the distro includes 2.4.0 kernel header 
files.

One example is the differences between then 2.2.x and 2.4.0 version 
of /usr/include/linux/netdevice.h. The distro version of this file will 
not compile many network drivers because of changes to the net_device 
structure.

I suggest the proper fix is to provide a 2.2.x version of kernel-headers 
with the 2.2.x kernel.

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2000-10-14 18:04:00 UTC

The current setup is correct. - /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm are
supposed to match the C libraries and have been meant to for all glibc users.
Glibc 2.2 needs 2.4 kernel headers for the features it uses and exposes to
applications.

Kernel modules should use the headers with the kernel but cannot rely on those
being in /usr/include/linux.