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Date:	Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:20:37 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop an empty byteorder/generic.h from being exported
 to userspace.

On 04/02/2008 03:38 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Since the entire meaningful contents of generic.h is wrapped by the
> __KERNEL__ test, drop it from being passed to userspace, and remove
> the now superfluous __KERNEL__ test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
> 
> ---
> 
>   is there some value in allowing an effectively empty header file to
> be exported to userspace?

Not breaking the userspace? The file is included in non-__KERNEL__ sections from 
byteorder/*_endian.h.
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