On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:58:52PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:22:39 +0200 > > > If this is feasible for small packages like SILO is another matter. IMHO > > SILO and alikes should use the exported headers like gcc/glibc does > > it. But I think I share this opinion with the other kernel folks > > but I have never asked direct. > > SILO has some special cases. For example it wants to use the UFS > filesystem headers, but just to get the on-disk datastructures it > require requires way too many inappropriate dependant other kernel > headers. > > So we couldn't get anyone to add the ufs*.h bits to the exported > header list. Which was fair enough, and we therefore added an > appropriate copy to the SILO sources. OK. I was commenting only on openprom.h and did not know the full picture. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
