On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:04:26PM -0500, Andrew Moise wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 10:53, Andr�s Rold�n wrote:
> > Do you really think of this as a valgrind bug?
> 
>   Meanin' no disrespect, Mr. maintainer sir, but I do.  Userspace
> programs aren't supposed to include kernel headers (see e.g.
> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010618_122.html#2 ); they're
> supposed to duplicate the parts of the kernel headers they need.  This
> sort of problem is exactly why that's so.
>   valgrind already does the right thing sometimes (though it still
> includes a lot of kernel headers also); some kernel header info has been
> copied into vg_kerneliface.h and is used from there.  IMO the ipc stuff
> (and some ISDN stuff that's causing problems as well) should be copied
> there.  I'd be happy to give you a patch if you like; I already prodded
> the thing into working again on my system.

Please do post the patch.  I'd like to see what was necessary.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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