linux-kernel - the value in exporting unused header files?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711052252280.31528@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2007 22:55:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: the value in exporting unused header files?

  as part of the output of yet another cleanup script i have, we
notice that:

$ grep -r if_wanpipe *
Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt:        if_wanpipe.h    WANPIPE Socket definitions
include/linux/Kbuild:unifdef-y += if_wanpipe.h
include/linux/if_wanpipe.h:* if_wanpipe.h       Header file for the Sangoma AF_WANPIPE Socket
$

  in other words, a header file that is not included by any other file
in the tree is still being exported to user space.  is that normal?

rday
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