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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:32:39 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>, Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Delete export of tty.h to userspace. Christoph Hellwig napsal(a): > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:17:07AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> so you're saying you'll drop that include from util-linux, is that it? >> but it's still a good plan to generate a warning whenever userspace >> includes that file, so i'll submit a quick patch to generate that, >> based on jiri's suggestion. > > Not exporting it at all gives an error which is a lot better. Just look > at all the warnings most userspace spews, they'd never even notice it > otherwise. Not directly responding to this, but keeping CCs. I though of the removal one more time and there is one more issue (maybe). Every exported kernel header, which includes this file outside #ifdef __KERNEL__ #endif will be broken in userspace. Are you sure, there are no such includes? -- Jiri Slaby (jirislaby@...il.com) Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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