linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Some love to default profiler

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Date:	Sun, 8 Jul 2007 20:53:03 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Some love to default profiler

On 08/07/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:50:27AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 04/07/07, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> >> 1) Drop __KERNEL__ out of profile.h. It contains only internal kernel
> >> stuff and
> >>    not in exported headers list
> >
> > Even if it's not in the list of exported headers, does it really hurt
> > to retain that extra safeguard?
> >...
>
> Safeguard for what?
>
Well, for userspace code that tries to include the file.  I know
nobody should, but somebody still might.   At least that was my
thought when I made that comment.

> And it has to be consistent, and current policy is to not have
> #ifdef __KERNEL__'s in all not to userspace exported headers.
>
Ok, in that case it should go away.


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