Re: BUG in Linux 2.6.16/2.6.16.1 (compilation failure of thirdparty software)

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Mar 28 2006 - 17:48:32 EST


On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 20:29 +0200, Thierry Godefroy wrote:
> Paragon_NTFS_3.x.v5.1 fails to compile (with gcc v3.4.3) with the following
> errors:

It's not a bug when an upgrade causes third party kernel modules not to
compile - your code needs to be updated to work with 2.6.16.

Linux makes no effort to guarantee source or binary compatibility with
out of tree kernel modules, or userspace code that includes kernel
headers.

Lee

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