On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:59 PM, ashutosh dixit <ashutosh.dixit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Correct, if things in Documentation will be compiled against the headers > in the kernel source tree then this patch is not required. However, > Andrew had reported the following compile error: > >> In file included from Documentation/mic/mpssd/sysfs.c:21: >> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.h:55:30: error: linux/virtio_ids.h: No such file or directory > > which made it appear to us that Documentation was being compiled against > headers installed on the system, not headers in the kernel source > tree. The patch was submitted to address this latter case, but if that > does not occur it is not required. > Alright, if you want to handle the case where somebody is trying to build against old and incompatible headers, just have a #error "Your kernel headers are too old, at least 3.13 is required" at the top of mpssd.c instead of having it fail at runtime. Thanks, Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
