On Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 23:38:33 -0700 > > "Hex Star" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
