Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:36:03 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: /usr/include/*/acpi.h |
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Petr Baudis wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:15:45PM CET, Len Brown wrote: >>>> This header files are part of the linux kernel, and thus of course >>>> available in /usr/include/{asm,linux}. >> So you pick up all of the kernel include/linux and include/asm*? >> (but exclude include/acpi/, which is as much a kernel header as the above) > > Yes, we do not exclude any files from the kernel headers package, since > it is safer to have an extra file there than miss something that > something in userspace *could* need - or that is not needed now but can > silently become useful for something userspace in the future. An "all > headers part of the linux kernel" is much safer definition than "a > somewhat random selection of kernel headers".
I wouldn't agree with this. We have what headers are to be used in userspace now well defined with the "make headers_install" feature in the kernel, which is what Fedora Core 6 is basing its kernel headers on. Including all headers is simply asking for userspace to use functions, etc. from the kernel source which they have no business using.
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