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Message-ID: <CAOFdcFMLYJ9qqRB-uwyLwyBpa=KTsHMbzdANJrmRu_wrqNArOA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:23:39 -0400
From:	Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
To:	ashutosh dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Dutt, Sudeep" <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
	"Rao, Nikhil" <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: mic: mpssd: Disable mpssd
 builds for kernels < 3.13

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:59 PM, ashutosh dixit
<ashutosh.dixit@...el.com> wrote:
> Correct, if things in Documentation will be compiled against the headers
> in the kernel source tree then this patch is not required. However,
> Andrew had reported the following compile error:
>
>> In file included from Documentation/mic/mpssd/sysfs.c:21:
>> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.h:55:30: error: linux/virtio_ids.h: No such file or directory
>
> which made it appear to us that Documentation was being compiled against
> headers installed on the system, not headers in the kernel source
> tree. The patch was submitted to address this latter case, but if that
> does not occur it is not required.
>
Alright, if you want to handle the case where somebody is trying to
build against old and incompatible headers,
just have a #error "Your kernel headers are too old, at least 3.13 is
required" at the top of mpssd.c instead of having it fail at runtime.

Thanks,

Peter
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