[syslinux:master] <linux/loop.h>: deal with really ancient Linux kernel headers

syslinux-bot for H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Jun 27 17:12:29 PDT 2010


Commit-ID:  e6e2e4dc0b832e68c3a9c9e76467619757772ee7
Gitweb:     http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/e6e2e4dc0b832e68c3a9c9e76467619757772ee7
Author:     H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
AuthorDate: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:09:18 -0700
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
CommitDate: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:09:18 -0700

<linux/loop.h>: deal with really ancient Linux kernel headers

RHEL4 had a 2.6.9 kernel, but 2.4.20 Linux kernel headers, so put in a
workaround for 2.4 kernel headers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>


---
 libinstaller/linux/loop.h |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libinstaller/linux/loop.h b/libinstaller/linux/loop.h
index 988cfed..90237a3 100644
--- a/libinstaller/linux/loop.h
+++ b/libinstaller/linux/loop.h
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ enum {
 
 #include <asm/posix_types.h>	/* for __kernel_old_dev_t */
 #include <linux/types.h>	/* for __u64 */
+#include <linux/version.h>	/* version of Linux kernel headers */
+
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0)
+/* We have truly ancient Linux kernel headers installed */
+typedef __kernel_dev_t __kernel_old_dev_t;
+#endif
 
 /* Backwards compatibility version */
 struct loop_info {



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