On Thu, 08 May 2003, James Yonan wrote:

> OpenVPN's config script assumes that if 2.4 headers are present (i.e.
> if_tun.h), then it should build for the 2.4 tun/tap driver.

This may not be true for build hosts of a distributor, who needs the
most conservative code if he's still shipping 2.2 kernels (as Debian).

> I don't completely understand why one would want to put 2.4 kernel headers on
> a 2.2 machine, since that would tend to confuse things, and break apps that
> depend on the userspace <-> kernel interface as defined by the kernel header
> files.

Think "binary package": built on a 2.4 machine, installed onto a
different 2.2 machine.

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