Compile error for latest snapshot(20110328)

Ralf Friedl Ralf.Friedl at online.de
Tue Mar 29 17:25:14 UTC 2011


Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>> The UBI attach/detach functionality is not available in kernels older than
>>> 2.6.25. Enabling this applet on such an old kernel doesn't make sense.
>>>       
>> Ok, that's a valid argument :-)
>>
>> Maybe #error'ing out with "your kernel headers are probably too old..."
>> would be an option. I'll try to cook something up.
>>     
>
> This will only clutter code up. Think how useless such check
> becomes in a year or two...
>
>   
The embedded world can be quite stable. I use busybox on a device where 
the vendor is still at 2.6.13. At least it's no longer 2.4 ...

Ralf


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