On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 15:34 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I could, but that would defeat the purpose somewhat. > > I believe "make headers_install" isn't "this is what userspace *has* to > get from the kernel" (which is, after all, the null set -- people wrote > C libraries for DOS for example), but "this is what the kernel provides > to userspace." It's up to userspace to use it or not, depending on the > suitability for any one particular userspace. Yes, but we have to draw the line somewhere. Otherwise we just continue exporting crap like stomic.h and letting people shoot themselves in the foot. I'm inclined to agree with hch that elf.h and page.h fall on the same side of that line as atomic.h -- but since I know that merits some discussion, it's something I've deferred for now. Let's get the basic and obvious stuff done first and then we can argue about the remaining details. -- dwmw2 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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