Bug#216921: Can't compile programs, using kernel headers from experimental libc6-dev

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:00:18PM +0100, Jerome De Greef wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:40:36PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > /usr/include/linux/list.h:563:2: warning: #warning "don't include kernel
> > >  headers in userspace"
> > 
> > Have you considered reading that warning again? :)  Please do not
> > include kernel headers in user applications.  A very small number of
> > them are sanitized for userspace use but most are not.
> 
> Hum...
> 
> From /usr/share/doc/linux-kernel-headers/README.Debian:
> 
>   - These headers can not be used to build kernel modules.  They're only
>     for userspace use.
>   [..]
>   - These headers should generally not be included directly.  It's not a bug
>     if you include one directly and something breaks.
> 
> They are for userspace use but should not be used :-/
> That's a bit misleading...

"Should not be used _directly_".  OK, the language needs some
clarifying.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer