Re: unify sparc and sparc64 headers

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:33:03PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:54:49 +0200
> 
> > The full set can be pulled from:
> > 
> >    ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/sparc.git
> > 
> > And will follow as mails too.
> 
> This looks OK.
> 
> About asm/openprom.h, I am very sure we can kill that export to
> userspace.  The only real user is the SILO boot loader and nowadays
> SILO includes it's own copy of the kernel headers it needs so we can
> safely remove the export on the kernel side.

The purpose of exporting kernel headers to
user space is to get rid of all the local copies so this
seems as a wrong argument to remove the export. We should
instead ask SILO to use the kernel exported version.

Looking at the SILO sources I would say that the kernel should
use a copy from the SILO source as that version are far better
documented than the kernel version. And then export that version.

	Sam
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