linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] chsc headers userspace cleanup

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Message-ID: <20080715191748.1f3905ad@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:17:48 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] chsc headers userspace cleanup

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:58:18 +0300,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:

> Kernel headers shouldn't expose functions to userspace.

Could you please elaborate? Especially as I see e.g.
include/linux/virtio_ring.h exporting functions outside #ifdef
__KERNEL__ as well...
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