Re: kobject.h makes lilo compile break

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 02:39:31PM +0100, Simon Scheiwiller wrote:
> Hello
> 
> When I'm compiling lilo on a machine with kernel 2.5.54, I get the following
> error:
> 
> 
> gcc -c -O2 -Wall -g `( if [ -r $ROOT/etc/lilo.defines ]; then cat
> $ROOT/etc/lilo.defines; else
> echo -DBDATA -DBUILTIN -DDSECS=3 -DIGNORECASE -DLBA32 -DLVM -DEVMS -DM386 -D
> ONE_SHOT -DPASS160 -DREISERFS -DREWRITE_TABLE -DSOLO_CHAIN -DVARSETUP -DVERS
> ION -DUNIFY; fi ) | sed 's/-D/-DLFC_/g'` `[ -r /usr/include/asm/boot.h ] &&
> echo -DHAS_BOOT_H` `cat mylilo.h` lilo.c
> In file included from /usr/include/linux/kobject.h:10,
>                  from /usr/include/linux/device.h:28,
>                  from /usr/include/linux/genhd.h:15,
>                  from common.h:20,
>                  from lilo.c:25:
> /usr/include/linux/list.h:323:2: warning: #warning "don't include kernel
> headers in userspace"

Um, why not heed this warning?  :)

And yes, it looks like Pat got a change in to prevent kobject.h from
being included if __KERNEL__ is not set, but this is not the proper fix.
See the archives for the many discussions about not including kernel
header files in userspace programs.

thanks,

greg k-h