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Date:      Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:35:22 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, bp@butya.kz, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: world (still) having trouble (after gdb.291/gdb/defs.h) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104211229030.22912-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200104201358.f3KDwg812830@harmony.village.org>

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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <200104120007.f3C07JN67377@bunrab.catwhisker.org> David Wolfskill writes:
> : The notion of the same program (kdump, in this case) actually using both
> : include files would seem to be a cause for some concern.
> 
> Don't worry about it.  The person who imported the memcontrol stuff
> didn't check the system closely enough for conflicts.  The pccard
> define has been around since 1996 while the memcontrol one was added
> in 1999 and still hasn't been fixed :-)

Building with "mkioctls -s" also shows many conflicting numeric ioctl
values (probably many more than in 1996).  This is mostly another non-
problem, since the conflicting values mostly go to different drivers,
but it prevents utilities like kdump from interpreting ioctl numbers
unambiguously.

Bruce


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