Re: [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
09 Jun 2002 11:52:28 -0600


Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 03:09:44AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> > There has been talk of removing __KERNEL__ usage from
> > some of the header files.
>
> Where? If anything we need to increase __KERNEL__ usage in headers.
> We export far too much crap which makes no sense to userspace.

So we should just remove __KERNEL__ altogether. And say with 2.5.x
nothing is exported. Which pretty much has been the official policy
since user space started using glibc.

#include <linux/*>
and
#include <asm/*>
are no longer supported.

Eric
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