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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:15:04 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: sam@...nborg.org Cc: jaswinderlinux@...il.com, khc@...waw.pl, jaswinder@...nel.org, arnd@...db.de, mingo@...e.hu, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: why usr/include/linux/if_frad.h is required From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:33:10 +0100 > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:20:17AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> wrote: > > > Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> writes: > > > > > >> usr/include/linux/if_frad.h is covered with CONFIG_DLCI from many years > > >> and no body is complaining about it so it means no body is using it. > > >> > > >> So should we need to drop #if / #endif pair or the whole file from > > >> userspace. > > > > > > I think the file. "Empty file exported to userspace", long unused. We > > > can also have it back there, and it being not exported is an indicator > > > that it's not used. I guess the #ifdef __KERNEL__ can be removed, too. > > > > I will definately define #ifdef __KERNEL__ but I am also curious after > > defining it there is no point of making empty > > usr/include/linux/if_frad.h > > Googling a bit did not turn up _any_ non-kernel hits that has relevance. > So based on the information given in this thread I strongly > suggest to drop the export of this header. Sure, but on the other hand this makes all of the userland APIs essentially inaccessible and undefined. I bet Sangoma's internal tools reference this stuff. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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