linux-kernel - Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace

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Date:	Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:02:55 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Stefan Rompf <stefan@...lof.de>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	drow@...se.org, joseph@...esourcery.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	libc-alpha@...rceware.org, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Schedule removal of old macros exported to userspace

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 15:58 +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote:
> But when even glibc needs internal compat headers to compile with the second 
> kernel version that provides userspace headers, what is the long-term - even 
> mid-term - perspective of make headers_install then?

We've only _just_ started paying attention to what we export. I tried to
keep the initial cut of headers_install very simple and uncontentious --
sticking to implementation, and not policy. So I didn't do a
particularly thorough cull of stuff that we shouldn't be exposing --
it's expected that we may lose _some_ more stuff.

But breaking userspace like _this_ isn't acceptable, and we're not doing
it.

-- 
dwmw2

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