Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:56:20 +0100 |
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On Sünndag 28 November 2004 00:32, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 15:27 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > That's addressing a different problem. I agree with > > David W. that we need to clean the kernel headers up. > > Let libc or libxyz provide the missing functionality. > > The borken programs were stealing something that wasn't > > promised to them AFAIK. > > Not only wasn't it promised; it wasn't even working on some > architectures anyway. > Well, at least on s390 some effort was spent on making it work (see e.g. asm-s390/spinlock.h). I don't really mind removing that functionality, but I'd prefer still installing some files into /usr/include/asm/spinlock.h et.al that contain an #error and a pointer to an explanation, so users can complain to the right people (i.e. not me ;-).
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