Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [HDRINSTALL 3/3] Remove asm/io.h from user visibility | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:32:15 +0100 |
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There's no excuse for userspace abusing this kernel header -- the kernel's headers are not intended to provide a library of helper routines for userspace. Using <asm/io.h> from userspace is broken on most architectures anyway. Just say 'no'.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm b/include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm index bdb8b08..6b16dda 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm +++ b/include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm @@ -4,8 +4,5 @@ unifdef-y += a.out.h auxvec.h byteorder. sigcontext.h siginfo.h signal.h socket.h sockios.h stat.h \ statfs.h termbits.h termios.h timex.h types.h unistd.h user.h -# These really shouldn't be exported -unifdef-y += io.h - # These probably shouldn't be exported unifdef-y += elf.h page.h -- dwmw2
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