linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18 Headers

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Message-Id: <1152908202.3191.98.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:16:42 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jim Gifford <maillist@...55.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ralf@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 21:39 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:28 -0700, Jim Gifford wrote:
> > Unfortunately, a lot programs out there are using page.h, and a lot of 
> > people are using that in their programs. 
> 
> .... and they're all broken.... 

More to the point, now we're doing this from upstream we can be
_consistent_ about telling them to sod off and fix their broken crap.

We no longer have to deal with cries of 'but it works on $SOMEDISTRO'
when another distro tries to impose some sanity rather than just
pandering to it.

Kernel headers are _not_ a library of random crap for userspace to use.

-- 
dwmw2

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