linux-kernel - Re: New location for generic headers?

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Message-ID: <20081203123747.GA1751@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:37:47 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New location for generic headers?

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:42:18PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:21:49AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:19:55PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > The only problem I see is that it would user space use of asm/ 
> > > without make headers_install impossible.
> > 
> > Well, they aren't supposed to do that anyway, so I would consider
> > breaking it a good idea.
> 
> Sorry, but working against your users is never a good strategy.

It's not working against users.  It's just preventing something that
is a very bad thing already. 

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