Re: Need info on Guinness kernel headers.

[John Summerfield <summer OS2 ami com au>]

> Hi all,
> 
>      In Guinness, the kernel is 2.2.16, but the headers are labeled
> 2.4.  This works for me very well.  The problem is that folks on a couple
> of lists that I'm on are yapping about the fact that it's very very bad to
> mix versions like that.  I know it works, but would like to know why.  Any
> pointers?

Well-written programs that talk to the kernel (such as glibc) need the 2.4 
headers to map stuff for the 2.4 kernel.

In general, these programs remain compatible with 2.2.


Apart from glibc, modutils, & procinfo come to mind.


For most programs, it doesn't matter which headers are there.