Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:37:25 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, David Woodhouse wrote: > > The concept isn't at all hard to understand. But no patch is 'obviously > correct' if you want to protect against the _slightest_ possibility that > people might be abusing something you're taking away.
I really disagree. That's kind of my point. We _can_ make sure that there is abzolutely zero semantic content change.
People both inside and outside the kernel who use the old <linux/xxx.h> headers will get exactly what they got before if we do it right.
> Some people might define __KERNEL__ on purpose when compiling something > in userspace, to get something that would otherwise be hidden from them. > Would you consider that sacrosanct too?
Why _do_ you want to break things? Do the cleanup. Don't do the breakage.
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