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

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Message-Id: <20091230115610.c10599b8.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:56:10 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove macro MAXHOSTNAMELEN from <asm-generic/param.h>.

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.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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