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Re: linux headers
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Jeroen Dekkers |
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Re: linux headers |
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Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:35:54 +0200 |
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At Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:59:30 +0200,
Robert Millan wrote:
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> How is it that util/biosdisk.c makes effort to avoid including Linux headers
> and defines Linux ioctl macros on its own?
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> This adds an extra maintainance burden, so I guess there must be a reason to
> do
> it, but can't think of one..
It only defines it when it isn't defined yet. It seems to be taken
from GRUB Legacy's lib/device.c and probably comes from a time those
things weren't always defined. The checks for glibc also don't seem
that useful to me. It needs a cleanup.
Jeroen Dekkers