linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers

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Message-Id: <1232249904.3097.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:08:24 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers_check warnings

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:33 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:35:01AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > Hello Sam, David,
> > 
> > /home/jaswinder/jaswinder-git/linux-2.6-tip/usr/include/mtd/jffs2-user.h:20: extern's make no sense in userspace
> > 
> 
> This file is for userspace only, and it makes sense where it's used
> (mtd-utils.)
> 
> In general though, this file doesn't actually depend on the kernel and
> could be entirely provided from the userspace library.
> 

If this file is _ONLY_ for userspace and kernel cannot use it then what
is the point of keeping this file in kernel headers.

--
JSR



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