Re: Kernel modules with dependencies on each other

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:43:35PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> I'm in a very similar quagmire with ulogd and kernel-patch-ulog. ulogd
> requires kernel-patch-ulog's linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_ULOG.h and modified
> linux/netlink.h to build. I couldn't make a Build-Depends: as that would
> only install it into /usr/src, not actually patch the kernel, so I did an
> ugly hack that just added include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_ULOG.h and
> include/linux/netlink.h into ulogd's source directory, and then made sure to
> include it before anything else.

That's not an ugly hack, it's the correct way to do things.
Presumably, it's a stable binary interface, so having a
slightly out-of-date header file is not a problem.




dave...