From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IeX2f-0002I4-Tv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:23:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l97ECvEr002866; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:12:57 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l97E76x4027942 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:07:06 GMT Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 659B0207FBE for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F9C207FBD for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de (account wevah [139.174.197.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.12) with ESMTPSA id 26574589 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:07:04 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:06:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <5dc6fd9e0710062338s4de5325bw2ba4746f63833d4d@mail.gmail.com> <20071007132853.509be92e.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <20071007132853.509be92e.hilse@web.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710071606.41948.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.3 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 3c355aaa-f632-4bb7-b0da-0b8f23c65439 X-Archives-Hash: 98c2568ac0aebba1f3a51082c2a59c59 On Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:33 -0700 > > "Hex Star" wrote: > > There is no harm in doing so :) > > If you say such things, please add a short explanation what makes you > think that. After all this isn't IRC. > > In fact, I would not suggest doing that. While kernel developers do > their best not to break existing interfaces unless they have real urge, > the picture also might get bigger, i.e. more or different APIs. So I > would not suggest running a userland based on headers with higher > version than the actual kernel. Although I have to admit that I don't > know if there candidates for unexpected behaviour and what those might > be. > > -hwh the linux-headers and the kernel are completly off -sync. There is no harm in using headers with a higher/lower version number. But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very severe problems. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list