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SubjectRe: /usr/include/*/acpi.h
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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