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SubjectRe: PATCH 2.5.2.7: io.h cleanup and userspace nudge
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > > As we are now in 2.5.x series I figured it might be a good time to push
> > > this out... The patch removes __KERNEL__ ifdefs from [only] io.h as a
> > > nudge to userspace that they should not be including kernel headers.
> >
> > Why not..
> >
> > #ifndef __KERNEL__
> > #error This file should not be included by userspace.
> > #endif
>
> I thought about it, but then the tree would be littered with that all
> over the place. Programmers are smart enough to figure this out (I hope
> :))

You can put it in config.h or the like where it gets included by everyone.

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