linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove macro MAXHOSTNAMELEN from <asm-generic/param.h>.

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912292002370.6803@localhost>
Date:	Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:03:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove macro MAXHOSTNAMELEN from
 <asm-generic/param.h>.

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:32:15 -0500 (EST) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Since nothing in the entire tree makes use of this macro, remove
> > it. This removal should eventually propagate to all of the
> > arch-specific param.h files.
>
> Except if the only place this is picked up by glibc is the kernel
> header files, then it will disappear from user mode and some
> packages may break.

  true, but this still takes me back to my original observation -- why
is this macro being defined in a kernel header file if the kernel
itself has absolutely no interest in it and doesn't use it in any way?

  if glibc wants it, it might as well define it.

rday
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