linux-kernel - Re: useless asm/page.h exported to userspace for some architectures

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Date:	Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:29:40 +0800
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: useless asm/page.h exported to userspace for some architectures

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 17:42 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:00:20AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > most architectures (pretty much everyone but like x86/x86_64/s390)
> > export empty asm/page.h headers ... considering how useless these are,
> > why bother exporting them at all ?  clearly userspace is unable to
> > rely on it across architectures, so by making it available to the two
> > most common (x86/x86_64), applications crop up that build "fine" on
> > them but fail just about everywhere else
> 
> It should not be exported to userspace at all.  Care to submit a patch? 

I think we can kill off <asm/elf.h> too -- the only interesting parts
are in <asm/auxvec.h>, aren't they?

-- 
dwmw2

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