linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18 Headers

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Message-Id: <20060714.131957.57444250.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	arjan@...radead.org, maillist@...55.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:16:42 +0100

> 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.

I totally agree.  When I saw that some dists make asm/page.h define
PAGE_SIZE to "getpagesize()" for userspace, I nearly crapped myself.

That is insane, and encourages the problem to persist instead of
encouraging the right fix.
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