Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:18:35 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Even atomic.h. I could well imagine that somebody includes atomic.h just > to get the thread-safe updates for some architectures. For example, > asm-alpha/atomic.h does it right, and I would not be at all surprised if > somebody had noticed.
In fact, this is not entirely theoretical. I know people _have_ noticed, because I've gotten queries from some projects that wanted to copy the definitions for their alpha port. I only got those queries because my name is on the file, and those people wanted to actually copy them, not just include the header file. I don't know _how_ many people decided to just do the #include.
There are probably more people familiar with the kernel source tree than with GLIB which is probably the preferred way to do those things these days. And a few years ago that choice wasn't even there.
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