Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel header policy | Date | Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:06:46 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca> wrote: > It has been more than a week now...
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:12:03 -0600 (MDT) > From: Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca> > To: Linus Torvalds > Subject: Kernel header policy
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> I am contacting you to express my concern over a growing trend in kernel > development. I am specifically referring to changes being made to kernel > headers that break compatibility at the userland level, where __KERNEL__ > isn't #define'd.
The policy with respect to kernel headers is /very/ simple:
T H E Y A R E N E V E R U S E D F R O M U S E R L A N D.
This general policy makes all your points (trivially) moot. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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