Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:47:50 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Mariusz Mazur wrote: > > Facts: > - current __KERNEL__ stuff is crap;
Fact: you're wrong. I _constantly_ get emails when something breaks. It doesn't happen all that often, but it happens.
IOW, I _know_ from personal experience that people depend on it. No ifs, buts and maybes about it.
> People in this thread are trying to force you to agree to a specific location > where stuff like the above mentioned mtd can go to and to start accepting > patches (afaik there were a number of patches trying to introduce that > userland dir - all of them ignored). That's (mostly) all.
No. People in this thread have almost uniformly ignored my arguments.
If it's MTD-specific, nobody _cares_ where it goes. Somebody take a fricking flying leap of faith here.
If that's all that people want, I hereby proclaim that
include/asm-xxx/user/xxxx.h include/user/xxxx.h
is reserved for user-visible stuff. And now you can send me small and localized patches that fix a _particular_ gripe.
But claiming that __KERNEL__ doesn't work is clearly a bunch of crapola. As is the notion that you can somehow do it all. We do it in small pieces.
Happy now?
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