Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal | Date | 9 Jun 2002 11:49:47 -0700 |
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Followup to: <m18z5owd9f.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> By author: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> writes: > > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 03:09:44AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > > > There has been talk of removing __KERNEL__ usage from > > > some of the header files. > > > > Where? If anything we need to increase __KERNEL__ usage in headers. > > We export far too much crap which makes no sense to userspace. > > So we should just remove __KERNEL__ altogether. And say with 2.5.x > nothing is exported. Which pretty much has been the official policy > since user space started using glibc. > > #include <linux/*> > and > #include <asm/*> > are no longer supported. >
In theory, perhaps. There is plenty that just really can't be done that way, especially stuff which deals with ioctls and their structures.
It makes more sense to constrain what is exported to a minimum, but actually have it be usable.
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